sa , adj. poss., V. son .
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Verkaufsaussichten sales prospects Verkaufsbemühen marketing effort Verkaufsbemühen sales effort Verkaufsbüro sales office Verkaufserfahrung selling experience Verkaufsfläche sales area Verkaufsfläche sales floor Verkaufsförderer; Werber sales promoter Verkaufsförderung sales promotion Verkaufsförderung; Werbung sales promotion Verkaufsförderungsmittel sales promotion aids Verkaufsgebiet sales territory Verkaufsgespräch sales talk Verkaufskampagne sales drive Verkaufskampagne selling campaign Verkaufskatalog sales catalogue Verkaufskonto trading account Verkaufskonzession franchise Verkaufskunst salesmanship Verkaufskurs selling rate Verkaufskurve sales curve Verkaufsleitung sales management Verkaufsmakler; Verkaufsvertreter selling broker Verkaufsmethode sales method Verkaufsnetz sales network Verkaufsnote bill of sale Verkaufsorganisation; Vertriebsapparat sales organization verkaufsorientiert sales oriented Verkaufspersonal sales force Verkaufspersonal sales personnel Verkaufspersonal sales staff Verkaufspersonal salespeople Verkaufsplanung; Absatzplanung sales planning Verkaufspolitik; Vertriebspolitik sales policy Verkaufspreis price of sale Verkaufsprovision sales commission Verkaufsprovision selling commission Verkaufsraum sales room Verkaufsraum selling floor Verkaufsschlager bestseller Verkaufsschulung sales training Verkaufsspanne margin on sales Verkaufsspesen selling expenses Verkaufsstatistik sales statistics Verkaufsstelle outlet Verkaufsstelle sales outlet Verkaufsstelle; Abnehmer; Absatz outlet Verkaufssteuer purchase tax Verkaufstätigkeit sales activity Verkaufstechnik sales approach Verkaufstendenz sales trend Verkaufstrainer sales trainer Verkaufsvertreter sales agent Verkaufsvertreter; Handelsvertreter sales agent Verkaufsvorgang sales process Verkaufsvorgang; Verkaufsablauf selling process Verkaufswerbung sales campaign Verkaufszahlen sales figures Verkehrsdisziplin traffic discipline Verkehrserleichterung facilitation of traffic Verkehrsgewerbe transport industry Verkehrsknotenpunkt traffic junction Verkehrsstrom flow of traffic Verknappung shortage Verkündigung pronouncement Verladebescheinigung mate's receipt Verladedokument shipping document Verladehafen lading port Verladehafen; Verladeort; Übernahmeort place of taking in charge Verladekosten loading charges Verlader shipping agent Verladerampe loading bay Verladevereinbarung shipping agreement Verladung loading of goods Verladung an Bord loading on board Verladung an Bord shipment on board Verladung an Deck shipment on deck verlagern relocate Verlagerung der Nachfrage movement of demand verlangen demand verlangen daß der Verkäufer require the seller to verlängerte Obligationen continued bonds Verlängerung prolongation Verlängerung der Frist extension of time Verlängerung der Genehmigung extension of permit Verlängerung der Gültigkeit extension of validity Verlängerung des Arbeitstages extension of the working day Verlängerung des Kredits extension of credit Verlängerung einer
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

The bars across the sistrum show that it denotes a pure virgin (see Ancient Faiths , second edition, Vol.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

AT VIENNA PART THE THIRD — DUX — 1786-1798 I — THE CASTLE AT DUX II — LETTERS FROM FRANCESCA III — CORRESPONDENCE AND ACTIVITIES IV — CORRESPONDENCE WITH JEAN-FERDINAND OPIZ V — PUBLICATIONS VI — SUMMARY of MY LIFE VII — LAST DAYS
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

My time did not pass very serenely while he was gone; however, he brought me no answer, but that Lord Orville was not at home.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Common peduncle, very slender, very long, drooping.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

Now the first that are imbued with this beginning of novelty, when they set out with their tale, find, by the oppositions they meet with, where the difficulty of persuasion lies, and so caulk up that place with some false piece; [Voltaire says of this passage, “He who would learn to doubt should read this whole chapter of Montaigne, the least methodical of all philosophers, but the wisest and most amiable.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

I love forsooth these reveries, Though sandstorms make me pant, Voluptuously swaying Upon an elephant.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

In consideration of his previous valuable services, he was allowed to cruise wherever he pleased.
— from Great Events in the History of North and South America by Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Goodrich

Shell flat, pyramidal, very similar to the preceding species, but differing in the rudimentary horn, which is smaller than half the cephalis, and in the length of the three cylindrical feet, which are twice to three times as long as the shell.
— from Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII by Ernst Haeckel

Administrative divisions: 34 provinces (velayat, singular - velayat); Badakhshan, Badghis, Baghlan, Balkh, Bamyan, Daykundi, Farah, Faryab, Ghazni, Ghor, Helmand, Herat, Jowzjan, Kabul, Kandahar, Kapisa, Khost, Kunar, Kunduz, Laghman, Logar, Nangarhar, Nimroz, Nuristan, Paktika, Paktiya, Panjshir, Parwan, Samangan, Sar-e Pul, Takhar, Uruzgan, Wardak, Zabul Independence: 19 August 1919 (from UK control over Afghan foreign affairs) National holiday: Independence Day, 19 August (1919) Constitution: new constitution drafted 14 December 2003-4 January 2004; signed 16 January 2004 Legal system: based on mixed civil and Sharia law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state: President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Hamid KARZAI (since 7 December 2004); Vice Presidents Ahmad Zia MASOOD and Abdul Karim KHALILI (since 7 December 2004); note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government; former King ZAHIR Shah held the honorific, "Father of the Country," and presided symbolically over certain occasions but lacked any governing authority; the honorific is not hereditary; King ZAHIR Shah died on 23 July 2007 head of government: President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Hamid KARZAI (since 7 December 2004); Vice Presidents Ahmad Zia MASOOD and Abdul Karim KHALILI (since 7 December 2004) cabinet: 25 ministers; note - under the new constitution, ministers are appointed by the president and approved by the National Assembly elections: the president and two vice presidents are elected by direct vote for a five-year term (eligible for a second term); if no candidate receives 50% or more of the vote in the first round of voting, the two candidates with the most votes will participate in a second round; a president can only be elected for two terms; election last held 9 October 2004 (next to be held in 2009) election results: Hamid KARZAI elected president; percent of vote - Hamid KARZAI 55.4%, Yunus QANUNI 16.3%, Ustad Mohammad MOHAQQEQ 11.6%, Abdul Rashid DOSTAM 10.0%, Abdul Latif PEDRAM 1.4%, Masooda JALAL 1.2% Legislative branch: the bicameral National Assembly consists of the Wolesi Jirga or House of People (no more than 249 seats), directly elected for five-year terms, and the Meshrano Jirga or House of Elders (102 seats, one-third elected from provincial councils for four-year terms, one-third elected from local district councils for three-year terms, and one-third nominated by the president for five-year terms) note: on rare occasions the government may convene a Loya Jirga (Grand Council) on issues of independence, national sovereignty, and territorial integrity; it can amend the provisions of the constitution and prosecute the president; it is made up of members of the National Assembly and chairpersons of the provincial and district councils elections: last held 18 September 2005 (next to be held for the Wolesi Jirga by September 2009; next to be held for the provincial councils to the Meshrano Jirga by September 2008) election results: the single non-transferable vote (SNTV) system used in the election did not make use of political party slates; most candidates ran as independents Judicial branch: the constitution establishes a nine-member Stera Mahkama or Supreme Court (its nine justices are appointed for 10-year terms by the president with approval of the Wolesi Jirga) and subordinate High Courts and Appeals Courts; there is also a minister of justice; a separate Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission established by the Bonn Agreement is charged with investigating human rights abuses and war crimes Political parties and leaders: Afghanistan Peoples' Treaty Party [Sayyed Amir TAHSEEN]; Afghanistan's Islamic Mission Organization [Abdul Rasoul SAYYAF]; Afghanistan's Islamic Nation Party
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The first then is that whereby a Man, as he stands in the Fall, is put into a Capacity of Salvation, and hath conveyed unto him a Measure of that Power, Virtue, Spirit, Life, and Grace that was in Christ Jesus , which, as the free Gift of God, is able to counter-balance, overcome, and root out the evil Seed, wherewith we are naturally, as in the Fall, leavened.
— from An Apology for the True Christian Divinity Being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers by Robert Barclay

For the cold fit was accompanied by spasm and stiffness of the whole body, the jaws being fixed, the eyes staring and the pulse very small and weak.”
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton

Et quia e contrario protestantium argumenta sunt omnino frivola et infirma, quae temporis iniquitate vim aliquam contra nos habere putantur; futurum spero, ut vestrarum animarum et innumerabilium aliarum, quae a vestro nutu et exemplo pendent, miserti, ab huiusmodi falsorum dogmatum architectis et doctoribus facies vestras animumque ipsum avertatis, ac nobis, qui vitam nostram pro vesta salute alacriter profundere parati sumus, aequiori et magis propitia mente auscultetis.
— from Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities by Campion, Edmund, Saint

The affirmative will uphold its side of the proposition by establishing the three following facts:— A. The direct popular vote system would be more practicable.
— from Practical Argumentation by George K. (George Kynett) Pattee

In the Cage 91 [Pg viii] Saving a Woman: One Phase 95 Love is a Madness 97 On a Bust 98 Arabel 101 Jim and Arabel's Sister 108 The Sorrow of Dead Faces 116 The Cry 119 The Helping Hand 120 The Door 121 Supplication 122
— from Songs and Satires by Edgar Lee Masters