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Mühe effort Ansturm run
Anstoß impulse Anstrengung exertion Anstrengung strain Anstrengung; Mühe effort Ansturm run Ansturm rush Ansturm auf die Bank run on the bank Ansturm auf eine Bank run on a bank Anteil am Gewinn haben receive a share in the profits Anteil an der Firma share in the company Anteil an der Firma; am Geschäft share in the business Anteil an einem Goldbergwerk share in a gold mine Anteil an einer oHG share in a partnership Anteil der
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

marry even after renouncing
I made him understand that my cousin must never marry, even after renouncing all his claims, and how that least of all he should marry the daughter of the Marquis of Avonshire and bring England into the question.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

mean embarrassment a revolution
Consider: in the existing relations of the various members of society, for me, for me, after midnight to go in to the wedding of my subordinate, a registration clerk, at ten roubles the month—why, it would mean embarrassment, a revolution, the last days of Pompeii, a nonsensical folly.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

more eager and resolute
There were many women among them, who seemed more eager and resolute than their male companions.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

my elegant and refined
I soon began to enjoy to the full extent the pleasures that the wretched place affords, and which were within a gentleman’s reach: Ranelagh and the Ridotto; Mr. Mossop, at Crow Street; my Lord Lieutenant’s parties, where there was a great deal too much boozing, and too little play, to suit a person of my elegant and refined habits.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

more elevate and reasoned
Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate— Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

more easily and rapidly
For though the cure is affected all the more easily and rapidly the better condition the soul is in, we must not on this account suppose that there is nothing at all to heal.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

mind experience and reflection
If by degrees the truth flashing occasionally on his mind, experience and reflection arrive at undeceiving him, with respect to the power, the intelligence, the virtues actually residing in these objects; he at least supposes them put in activity by some secret, some hidden cause; that they are the instruments, employed by some invisible agent, who is either friendly or inimical to his welfare.
— from The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 2 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

my enthusiasm and relying
For, carried away by my enthusiasm and relying upon my instinct alone, I had had the audacity a few months before to publish a series of articles upon Richard Wagner.
— from Wagner at Home by Judith Gautier

my elbow and regarded
I raised myself on my elbow, and regarded him with the icy composure of an English butler.
— from Three Times and Out Told by Private Simmons, Written by Nellie L. McClung by Mervin C. Simmons

million eyes are riveted
"Seven million eyes are riveted upon you, hoping that you will be brave and wise enough to take such action as will fully atone for all the horrors of the past and secure for us every right due to all honorable, loyal, law-abiding citizens of the United States.
— from Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem. A Novel by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs

might enjoy a reign
"' 'That was the true faith of a Rouge,' said Tocqueville 'If this man,' he added, 'had any self-control, if he would allow us a very moderate degree of liberty, he might enjoy a reign—probably found a dynasty.
— from Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 by Nassau William Senior

machine earns and rifles
No sooner were Major King's men in safety than Fisher pushed still further forward to reinforce our front line, but while getting his men into position in the face of a combined fire of shrapnel, machine earns, and rifles, he was shot dead.
— from Canada in Flanders, Volume I by Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron

move evolve and revolve
To see the micro-organism move, evolve and revolve in the midst of normal cells, uncoil and undulate in the fluids which they inhabit, to see them play hide and seek with the blood corpuscles and clumps of fibrin, turn, twist, and rotate as if in a cage, to see these deadly little trypanosomes moving back and forth in every direction displaying their delicate undulating membranes and shoving aside the blood cells that are in their way while by their side the leucocytes, or white corpuscles, lazily extend or retract their pseudopods of protoplasm.
— from The Dream Doctor by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

Morgan E Armand Rene
Dorothea F. Morris Morgan (E) & Armand Rene Collett (A); 6Aug65; R365777.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1965 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office


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