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sattel und riten doruff
Hans Schiltberger asserts it very distinctly: "Ich hon och gesehen wann sie in reiss ylten, das sie ein fleisch nemen, und es dunn schinden und legents unter den sattel, und riten doruff; und essents wann sie hungert" (ch. 35).
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Seite unterer Rand der
Furchtlosigkeit freedom from fear Fusion fusion fusionieren fuse Fuß der Seite; unterer Rand der Seite bottom of page Fußnote footnote füttern feed G Gabelstapler fork-lift truck Gabelstapler forllift galoppierende Inflation galloping inflation galoppierende Inflation runaway inflation Gang course gängiger Preis popular price gängiges Wertpapier marketable security ganz neu brand-new ganz;
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

shows us riches Dawn
Arousing all the world, she shows us riches: Dawn has awakened every living creature.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

siège un représentant du
perdus pendant le siège; un représentant du peuple en mission lui
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

squared upon rational diameters
2 The base of these (3) with a third added (4) when combined with five (20) and raised to the third power furnishes two harmonies; the first a square which is a hundred times as great (400 = 4 × 100), 3 and the other a figure having one side equal to the former, but oblong, 4 consisting of a hundred numbers squared upon rational diameters of a square (i.e. omitting fractions), the side of which is five (7 × 7 = 49 × 100 = 4900), each of them 251 being less by one (than the perfect square which includes the fractions, sc. 50) or less by 5 two perfect squares of irrational diameters (of a square the side of which is five = 50 + 50 = 100); and a hundred cubes of three (27 × 100 = 2700 + 4900
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

ship under reef drawn
Crest: a ship under reef, drawn round a terrestrial globe with a cable by a hand issuing from clouds all proper" (Plate VI.).
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

support usurers repeal daily
Suffer us to famish, and their storehouses cramm'd with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

sur une raison de
Le concours des theologiens, & des rituels, qui sont les regles des dioceses, paroit former une autorite qui termine la question presente; cependant le conseil de conscience considerant d'un cote, que le raisonnement des theologiens est uniquement fonde sur une raison de convenance, & que la deffense des rituels suppose que l'on ne peut baptiser immediatement les enfans ainsi renfermes dans le sein de leurs meres, ce qui est contre la supposition presente; & d'un autre cote, considerant que les memes theologiens enseignent, que l'on peut risquer les sacremens que Jesus Christ a etablis comme des moyens faciles, mais necessaires pour sanctifier les hommes; & d'ailleurs estimant, que les enfans renfermes dans le sein de leurs meres, pourroient etre capables de salut, parcequ'ils sont capables de damnation;—pour ces considerations, & en egard a l'expose, suivant lequel on assure avoir trouve un moyen certain de baptiser ces enfans ainsi renfermes, sans faire aucun tort a la mere, le Conseil estime que l'on pourroit se servir du moyen propose, dans la confiance qu'il a, que Dieu n'a point laisse ces sortes d'enfans sans aucuns secours, & supposant, comme il est expose, que le moyen dont il s'agit est propre a leur procurer le bapteme; cependant comme il s'agiroit, en autorisant la pratique proposee, de changer une regle universellement etablie, le Conseil croit que celui qui consulte doit s'addresser a son eveque, & a qui il appartient de juger de l'utilite, & du danger du moyen propose, & comme, sous le bon plaisir de l'eveque, le Conseil estime qu'il faudroit recourir au Pape, qui a le droit d'expliquer les regles de l'eglise, & d'y deroger dans le cas, ou la loi ne scauroit obliger,
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Schwellung und Roetung der
Wassermann, S. : (2) Ueber eine mit Schwellung und Roetung der Beine verbundene Knochenschmerzhaftigkeit bei Kriegern, Wien klin.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

smarting under recent defeat
[60] The question naturally suggests itself, how was it possible for a people smarting under recent defeat to accept the religious ministrations provided by their conqueror?
— from The Celtic Christianity of Cornwall: Divers Sketches and Studies by Thomas Taylor

section under review Doctor
As to the timber resources of the western or Peace river division of the section under review, Doctor G. M. Dawson, before the Senate committee of 1888, after describing the prairie country, showed that the remainder of the surface was generally occupied by second-growth forest, occasionally dense, but more often composed of aspen, birch and cottonwood, with a greater or less proportion of coniferous trees.
— from The Unexploited West A Compilation of all of the authentic information available at the present time as to the Natural Resources of the Unexploited Regions of Northern Canada by Ernest J. Chambers

send us rattlin down
Well?' 'D' ye know who was in that blunderin' pirate as tried t' send us rattlin' down on the rocks below?'
— from A Trip to Mars by Frank Aubrey

Scatella urinaria Rob Desv
Syn.: Scatella urinaria , Rob. Desv.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

sector until recently dominated
The industrial sector, until recently dominated by steel, has become increasingly more diversified, particularly toward high-technology firms.
— from The 1991 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

some unknown reason do
We, for some unknown reason, do not take the work of native painters seriously, nor encourage them in proportion to their merit.
— from The Ways of Men by Eliot Gregory

stage under rather disadvantageous
That Jacques Cœur was the son of a wealthy fur merchant of Bourges, and that he was born in 1395, are the only facts of importance in his eventful career that are known, until he first makes his appearance on the historical stage, under rather disadvantageous circumstances, in 1420.
— from The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, vol. 06, No. 07, July 1900 House of Jacques Coeur: Bourges; Gothic Carved Woodwork by Various

sprung up remained day
Mr Sanford’s illness increased, till he was unable to appear at all in the schoolroom; and yet, as he still retained his post as head-master, points were supposed to be referred to him which never were so referred; and various grievances which sprung up remained, day after day, unredressed.
— from Digby Heathcote: The Early Days of a Country Gentleman's Son and Heir by William Henry Giles Kingston


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