If our pleasures be interrupt, we can tolerate it: our bodies hurt, we can put it up and be reconciled: but touch our commodities, we are most impatient: fair becomes foul, the graces are turned to harpies, friendly salutations to bitter imprecations, mutual feastings to plotting villainies, minings and counterminings; good words to satires and invectives, we revile e contra , nought but his imperfections are in our eyes, he is a base knave, a devil, a monster, a caterpillar, a viper, a hog-rubber, &c. Desinit in piscem mulier formosa superne ; [4518] the scene is altered on a sudden, love is turned to hate, mirth to melancholy: so furiously are we most part bent, our affections fixed upon this object of commodity, and upon money, the desire of which in excess is covetousness: ambition tyranniseth over our souls, as [4519] I have shown, and in defect crucifies as much, as if a man by negligence, ill husbandry, improvidence, prodigality, waste and consume his goods and fortunes, beggary follows, and melancholy, he becomes an abject,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

in myself, with such a daring man. PASCUAL: Yo os juro por San Ginés, I vow to you by Saint Ginés que, con toda su osadía, in spite of all his boldness le ha de hacer, por vida mía, an Aragonese will give him mal tercio un aragonés: I swear on my life, a beating: nos veremos.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

And when Arcadio the Achæan, who was always railing against Philip, and advising people to flee "Unto a country where they knew not Philip," visited Macedonia afterwards on some chance or other, the king's friends thought he ought to be punished and the matter not looked over; but Philip treated him kindly, and sent him presents and gifts, and afterwards bade inquiry to be made as to what sort of account of him Arcadio now gave to the Greeks; and when all testified that the fellow had become a wonderful praiser of the king, Philip said, "You see I knew how to cure him better than all of you."
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

the violence of this wind retarded our progress very much and the river being emencly Crooked we had it imediately in our face nearly every bend.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

ꝓ vedere ſe eramo tucti dent o neli bateli poi vedendolo morto aL meglio poteſemo feriti ſe ritraſſemo ali batelli q̃ gia ſe partiuão
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

For this reason every great “medicine” is usually kept apart in a hut or tipi built for the purpose, very much as we are accustomed to store explosives at some distance from the dwelling or business house.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

They turned aside, and supped late and poorly, very much against Sancho's will, who turned over in his mind the hardships attendant upon knight-errantry in woods and forests, even though at times plenty presented itself in castles and houses, as at Don Diego de Miranda's, at the wedding of Camacho the Rich, and at Don Antonio Moreno's; he reflected, however, that it could not be always day, nor always night; and so that night he passed in sleeping, and his master in waking.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

These brave words, said in a piercing voice, made all the other Marionettes cry.
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Marcellinus, concerning theft, reports that in his time there was no sort of torments which could compel the Egyptians, when taken in this act, though a people very much addicted to it, so much as to tell their name.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Wertpapiere obsolete securities Verfallszeit time of maturity Verfalltag date of expiration Verfalltag date of maturity Verfalltag expiration date Verfalltag expiry date Verfalltag; Verfallstermin date of expiry Verfalltag; Verfalltermin date of maturity verfälschen adulterate verfälschte Arzneimittel oder Drogen adulterated drugs verfälschte Lebensmittel adulterated food verfälschter Wein adulterated wine Verfälschung adulteration Verfälschung eines Dokuments falsification of a document Verfälschung von Nahrungsmitteln debasement of food verfassungswidrig unconstitutional Verfechter der Schutzzölle protectionist Verflechtung integration Verfrachtung mit Container containerization verfügbar available verfügbar machen make available verfügbar zur Verwendung available for disposal verfügbare Bestände on-hand inventories verfügbare Fläche amount of space verfügbare Gelder floating money verfügbare Guthaben free assets verfügbare Kapazität available capacity verfügbare Kaufkraft discretionary buying power verfügbare Mittel available funds verfügbare Mittel funds at disposal verfügbare persönliche Einkommen disposable personal income verfügbare
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

But Perrin was too greatly elated to pay very much attention to these speeches.
— from The Gods and Mr. Perrin: A Tragi-Comedy by Hugh Walpole

“I want to make some inquiry about Mr. Pieter Van Meter and his family,” she said, “and I was told that you would be a sincere source of information.
— from The Phantom Treasure by Harriet Pyne Grove

We went into the great Church, somewhat wider than Westminster-Abbey , but darkish within: the Portal very magnificent, adorned with several Marble Statues in Niches one over another.
— from Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 3 containing a collection of curious travels, voyages, and natural histories of countries as they have been delivered in to the Royal Society by Royal Society (Great Britain)

Dr. H. R. Storer, of Massachusetts, in 1859, declared that forced abortions in America were of frequent occurrence, and that this frequency was increasing so, that from 1 in 1,633 of the population in 1805, it had risen to 1 in 340 in 1849; and Dr. Kyle, of Xenia, Ohio, asserted that abortions occurred most frequently among those who are known as the better class; among church members, and those generally who pretend to be the most polite, virtuous, moral and religious.
— from Public School Education by Michael Müller

Four times as much is probably very much an under-estimate.
— from The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds

Professor Valentini ("Maya Archæol.," p. 23) describes an Aztec picture in the work of Gemelli ("Il giro del mondo," vol. vi.) of the migration of the Aztecs from Aztlan: "Out of a sheet of water there projects the peak of a mountain; on it stands a tree, and on the tree a bird spreads its wings.
— from Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly

The entertainment caused a pleasant sensation in the prison, and when the professor visited me again the next day, there was the same enthusiastic
— from My Three Years in a German Prison by Henri Severin Beland

Whereupon we may proceed to act toward that person very much as we did toward the original person in childhood.
— from Outwitting Our Nerves: A Primer of Psychotherapy by Josephine A. (Josephine Agnes) Jackson

It set forth that the recent proclamation violated many articles in the "joyous entry.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

"But supposing you liked the place very much, and there was just one whom you wished to avoid——" He laughed.
— from Fate Knocks at the Door: A Novel by Will Levington Comfort