She paid scot and she paid lot when she had money to pay; she worked when she could, and she starved when she must.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Laissez dire les sots, le savoir a son prix —Let ignorance talk, learning has its value.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.
Let us, then, be up and doing, / With a heart 45 for every fate; / Still achieving, still pursuing, / Learn to labour and to wait.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.
There were giddiness, and sickness, and sharp pangs like rheumatism, to be supported.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
"Quite," I said absently, skimming p. l.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
Let us take example from ourselves: judgments are the utmost point of all dogmatical and determinative speaking; and yet those arrets that our parliaments give the people, the most exemplary of them, and those most proper to nourish in them the reverence due to that dignity, principally through the sufficiency of the persons acting, derive their beauty not so much from the conclusion, which with them is quotidian and common to every judge, as from the dispute and heat of divers and contrary arguments that the matter of law and equity will permit And the largest field for reprehension that some philosophers have against others is drawn from the diversities and contradictions wherein every one of them finds himself perplexed, either on purpose to show the vacillation of the human mind concerning every thing, or ignorantly compelled by the volubility and incomprehensibility of all matter; which is the meaning of the maxim—“In a slippery and sliding place let us suspend our belief;” for, as Euripides says,— “God’s various works perplex the thoughts of men.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne
EUNEICA Aphrodite's handmaid, Bright as gold thou earnest, Tender woven garlands Round thy tender neck; Sweet as soft Persuasion, Lissome as the Graces, Shy Euneica, lovely Girl from Salamis.
— from The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English by Sappho
“Oh, Aunt Polly, I never saw anything so perfectly lovely and interesting in my life.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
Bescheinigung other governmental authorization sonstige die Gefahr berührende Umstände other circumstances affecting the risk sonstige Irrtümer; die sich ergeben bei other errors arising in sonstiges Vermögen other assets sorgen; Sorge care Sorgfalt care Sorgfalt walten lassen to exercise care sorgfältig careful sorgfältig painstakingly sorgfältige Verpackung careful packing Sorte grade Sorten foreign notes and coins Sortenabteilung foreign money department sortieren assort sortiert assorted Sortiment assortment Sortiment product line Sortiment range of goods Sortiment sales mix Sortimentsgroßhändler general wholesaler soweit der Kontext nicht verlangt unless the context requires soweit erforderlich where required soweit möglich; falls möglich if possible soweit wie möglich as far as possible sowohl ... als auch both ... and sowohl ... und both ... and sozial social Sozialabteilung welfare department Sozialarbeit welfare work Sozialarbeiter welfare worker soziale Anpassung social adjustment soziale Dienste social services soziale Nebenleistungen fringe benefits soziale Reform social reform soziale Stellung social situation Sozialgesetzgebung social legislation Sozialismus socialism Sozialist socialist Sozialleistungen employee benefits
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig
A second and similar package lay in the sand in front of him.
— from Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police by James Oliver Curwood
Such is the fickleness of man, indeed, that she almost superseded poor Linnet in their minds as an object of interest.
— from Linnet: A Romance by Grant Allen
Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
— from Through Forest and Fire Wild-Woods Series No. 1 by Edward Sylvester Ellis
Lord of all the Universe , when I think of YOU , Then this little mortal mind gets the larger view ; Then I see all shadowed paths leading into Light , Where the wrong things slay themselves , leaving only Right .
— from Poems of Optimism by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Let us, then, be up and doing; Still achieving, still pursuing.”— Longfellow.
— from Sketches in Crude-oil Some accidents and incidents of the petroleum development in all parts of the globe by John J. (John James) McLaurin
Those who read it for other purposes than amusement can hardly miss the sober and sound political lessons with which its light pages abound, and which are as much needed in England as by the nation to whom the author directly addresses his moral.
— from Michael Faraday Third Edition, with Portrait by J. H. (John Hall) Gladstone
One of his greatest services to his country was the effort to create a saner and sounder political life.
— from The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, Ph.D. by James Russell Lowell
Based in Montreal, Quebec, Alis Technologies has specialized in development and marketing of language handling solutions and services, particularly language implementation in the information technology industry.
— from The Internet and Languages [around the year 2000] by Marie Lebert
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