Wochen a period of fifteen days eine Frist vorbehalten reserve a period eine Gastwirtschaft führen keep an inn eine gefälschte Urkunde a falsified document eine gegenteilige Vereinbarung an agreement to the contrary eine Geldstrafe auferlegen impose a fine eine genau bestimmte Frist a specified period of time eine gerichtliche Instanz a judicial authority eine Gewohnheit herausbilden form a habit eine Grenze anheben raise a limit eine Grenze festsetzen to fix a limit eine Grenze vorschreiben give a limit eine Grundlage schaffen establish a basis eine hinzugefügte Klausel a superimposed clause eine Hypothek aufnehmen effect a mortgage eine Hypothek aufnehmen raise a mortgage eine Hypothek bestellen create a mortgage eine Hypothek eintragen record a mortgage eine Hypothek eintragen register a mortgage eine Hypothek kündigen call in a mortgage eine Hypothek löschen cancel a mortgage eine Hypothek löschen discharge a mortgage eine Hypothek löschen to cancel a mortgage eine Hypothek übernehmen assume a mortgage eine Hypothek zurückzahlen redeem a mortgage eine Information piece of information eine internationale Organisation für an international organization for eine junge Dame entführen to abduct a jung lady eine Karte studieren study a map eine Klage aufgeben to abandon a lawsuit eine Konferenz hinausschieben to defer a meeting eine Konferenz vertagen to adjourn a meeting eine Konzession erteilen grant a concession eine Kursangabe
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Again, was not Cleomenes of Sparta a most excellent king, a most cruel tyrant, and then again as a private individual most obliging and benevolent?
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

He helped him secure a manual excavating kit to the side of the truck, and then headed for a hogback MacFarland had spotted from the early air photos.
— from The Unprotected Species by Melvin Sturgis

If my sense of humour hadn't been trampled upon by various emotions which were all jumping about at the same time, I should have had hard work not to laugh when Stan and Mrs. Ess Kay scrambled out from under the lumbering old hood, which was like a great coal scuttle turned over their heads.
— from Lady Betty Across the Water by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

"You don't know how grieved I was to be the means of depriving you of the pleasure of hearing so exquisite a singer as Miss Earle, knowing, as I do, your love of music.
— from Professor Huskins by Lettie M. Cummings

Unless under circumstances where there is an urgent demand for straw as litter, that article should be used as food for stock, for which purpose it will be found, if of good quality, and given in a proper state, a most economical kind of dry fodder—equal, if not superior to hay, when the prices of both articles are considered.
— from The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Cameron, Charles Alexander, Sir

In all the ages during which the race has been developing there have existed formative influences of the sternest and most exacting kind; so that, just as our ears are constituted to hear only a certain character of sounds, and sounds of a limited pitch, duration, and loudness, and are deaf to all other sounds, so are we constituted to react only to certain environing stimuli, and to react with each stimulus in a certain definite measure, and only in a certain definite measure.
— from Defenseless America by Hudson Maxim

Mother was with them both in the oak drawing-room when Vic and I got down, and I found myself staring at Mrs. Ess Kay with a new kind of criticism in my mind; indeed, it hadn't occurred to me before to criticise at all.
— from Lady Betty Across the Water by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson