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their entire freedom from scar
Let us try this public opinion by another test, which is important in three points of view: first, as showing how desperately timid of the public opinion slave-owners are, in their delicate descriptions of fugitive slaves in widely circulated newspapers; secondly, as showing how perfectly contented the slaves are, and how very seldom they run away; thirdly, as exhibiting their entire freedom from scar, or blemish, or any mark of cruel infliction, as their pictures are drawn, not by lying abolitionists, but by their own truthful masters.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

this estimate falls far short
It is estimated that at least one hundred and fifty thousand women and girls earn their own living in New York; but there is reason to believe that this estimate falls far short of the truth when sufficient account is taken of the large number who are not wholly dependent upon their own labor, while contributing by it to the family’s earnings.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

the earth failed for sorrow
The firmament, the earth, failed for sorrow in their Nature in the time of Christ's dying.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

the encyclopaedists far from staggering
The conversation of the encyclopaedists, far from staggering my faith, gave it new strength by my natural aversion to disputes and party.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

technology einsatzbereit fir for service
Ladenstraße shopping centre einklagbare Forderung recoverable claim einklammern; Klammer bracket Einkommen income Einkommen aus Kapitalvermögen income from capital Einkommen aus Kapitalvermögen income from investment of capital Einkommen aus Land- und Forstwirtschaft income from agriculture and forestry Einkommen der Familie family income Einkommensgruppe income bracket Einkommensklasse income group Einkommensniveau level of income Einkommensquelle source of earnings Einkommensteuer income tax einkommensteuerabzugsfähig deductible from income tax Einkommensteuerberechnung computation of income tax Einkommensteuererklärung income tax return Einkommensteuerzahler income tax payer Einkommensverteilung distribution of income Einkommensverzögerung earnings lag einkopieren superimpose Einkünfte earnings Einkünfte proceeds Einkünfte revenue Einkünfte aus freiberuflicher Tätigkeit professional earnings Einkünfte aus Kapitalvermögen income from capital Einkünfte aus Miete und Verpachtung income from property Einkünfte aus nichtselbständiger Arbeit income from dependent work Einkünfte aus selbstständiger Arbeit income from independent work einladen invite Einladung; Aufforderung invitation Einlage deposit Einlage mit mehrfacher Ziehungsberechtigung alternate deposit Einlage; Anlage enclosure Einlagekapital capital paid up Einlagekapital deposit capital Einlagen deposits Einlagen von Privatpersonen individual deposits Einlassgeld gate money einlaufen; ankommen come in einlegen deposit einleitend introductory einleitender Satz opening paragraph Einleitung introduction einlösbar collectible einlösen encash einlösen honour einlösen; kassieren cash Einlösung encashment Einlösung eines Wechsels discharge of a bill einmal im Monat once a month einmalig one-time einmaliges Verkaufsargument unique selling proposition Einmanngeschäft one-man business Einmannunternehmen one-man concern Einmannunternehmen; Einzelfirma one-man business Einmischung interference Einnahmen receipts Einnahmen takings Einnahmen und Ausgaben receipts and expenditures Einnahmen- und Ausgabenrechnung cash basis accounting Einnahmen; Ertrag returns Einnahmenstrom cash inflow Einnahmequellen means of income einordnen; klassifizieren classify einpacken; eintüten; Beutel; Tasche bag einprägen impress einrahmen; Rahmen frame einreichen hand in einreichen to hand in Einreicher presentor Einreicher- und Inkassobanken remitting and collecting banks Einreisevisum entry visa einrichten institute einrichten set-up Einrichtungen facilities Einrichtungen zur Förderung des Handels commercial facilities einrücken to insert einsacken; Sack sack Einsatz input Einsatz der modernen Technologie employment of modern technology einsatzbereit fir for service einschalten switch on einschätzen estimate Einschätzen der Leistung performance rating Einschätzung der Geschwindigkeit speed rating Einschätzung der Kreditwürdigkeit acid ratio test Einschätzung der Leistung performance rating Einschätzung des Leistungsgrads rating einschiffen embark einschließen enclose einschließen include einschließen; umfassen; beinhalten include einschließlich including einschließlich inclusive einschließlich aller Abgaben including any taxes einschließlich aller Exportabgaben including any export duties einschließlich aller Gebühren including any fees einschließlich aller Kosten including any charges einschließlich Containertransport including container traffic einschließlich der Kosten für including the costs of einschließlich des multimodalen Transports including multi-modal operations einschließlich des Transits including their passage in transit einschließlich Dividende cum dividend einschließlich Ro-Ro Verkehr including roll-on roll-off traffic einschränken restrict einschränkend restrictive einschränkend; beschränkend restrictive Einschränkung; Beschränkung restriction Einschreibbrief registered letter einschreiben enroll Einschreiben registered mail einseitig one-sided einseitig unilateral einsetzen appoint einsetzen to utilise Einsetzung eines Ausschusses appointment of a committee Einsetzung eines Vertreters appointment of an agent Einsicht gewähren allow inspection Einsicht in Akten searching of documents Einsicht; Information intelligence einsparen economize Einsparung saving Einsparung; Ersparnis saving Einspruch objection Einspruch erheben to raise an objection einstellen recruit einstellen; nachstellen; anpassen adjust Einstellung der Verbraucher consumer attitude Einstellung einer Klage abandonment of an action Einstellung überflüssiger Arbeitskräfte feather-bedding Einstellung überflüssiger Arbeitskräfte featherbedding Einstellung von Personal engagement of new staff Einstellung weiterer Entwicklung suspension of further development Einstellung zu etwas attitude towards sth.
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

to Esther for fear she
I had the portrait in the interior of a gold snuff-box, but I had never shewn it to Esther for fear she should think Manon handsomer than herself, and conclude that I only shewd it her out of vanity; but as she now asked to see it I opened the box where it was and gave it her.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

the English forbidding French shipping
He began first by commercial concessions of the kind generally acceptable to the English, forbidding French shipping to trade to the South Seas under penalty of death, and lowering the duties on the importation of English coal.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

the employers fight for something
Let the unions fight for something they can keep; and let the employers fight for something they will not be sure to lose.
— from The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly

teaching ends for factoring so
The evidence already disclosed to the effect that the high school entrants are highly selected, that few of the failing pupils lack sufficient ability for the work, that they have manifested their ability and energy in diverse ways, and that particular subjects are unduly emphasized and by the uniformity of their requirement cause much maladjustment, largely contributing to the harvest of failures, seems to warrant an indictment against both the subject-matter and the teaching ends for factoring so prominently in the production of failures.
— from The High School Failures A Study of the School Records of Pupils Failing in Academic or Commercial High School Subjects by Francis Paul OBrien

to ensile fodder for silage
Ensilor stands for the person using the silo to ensile fodder for silage by the process of ensilage . — Prof. James W. Robertson, Ontario Agr.
— from Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians by William K. (William King) David

their education from faithfully saving
Many a farm girl and boy have secured their education from faithfully saving the "egg-money."
— from Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry by Pratt Food Company

The engraving falls far short
The engraving falls far short of rendering the beauty of the plant.
— from The Subtropical Garden; or, beauty of form in the flower garden. by W. (William) Robinson

the exemptions from fasting see
For a discussion of the exemptions from fasting see notes 14, 20, 30 and 31.
— from The Kitáb-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh

them effectively for Fannie still
Mrs. Jenks-Smith, who always hears everything, knowing of the dilemma, in the goodness of her heart sent some baskets of hothouse flowers, but the girls and men who were decorating did not know how to handle them effectively, for Fannie, still clinging to sentiment, had gilded nearly a barrel of old horseshoes, which were tied with white ribbon to every available place, being especially prominent on the doors of the reserved pews.
— from People of the Whirlpool From The Experience Book of a Commuter's Wife by Mabel Osgood Wright

the Encyclopædists far from shaking
"The society of the Encyclopædists, far from shaking my faith, had confirmed it by my natural aversion for partisanship and controversy.
— from Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) by John Morley

the Eltham from Fort St
The next Night, being Saturday the 2d of June , Hannah ’s Bedfellow, who had lain with her the Night before, went out of Town, and one James Moody , who had been a Ship-mate with her on board the Eltham from Fort St. David ’s to England , coming in the Evening of that Day, and wanting a Lodging, he was received by the Landlord, and as Hannah was his intimate, he was admitted to be her Bedfellow, which continued for two Nights together, without the least Suspicion in Life.
— from The Female Soldier; Or, The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell by Anonymous


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