"Geld" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... another, evaporates and dies. Besides he would needs persuade us that it showed too much of a vain curiosity, effeminacy, and luxury, to convert what is wholesome into that which is palatable. For as the riotous, not the temperate, use to cut cocks and geld pigs, to make their flesh tender and delicious, even against Nature; just so (if we may use a metaphor, says he) those that strain wine geld and emasculate it, whilst their squeamish stomachs will neither suffer them to drink pure wine, nor their intemperance ...
— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch
... who has land, trades to a certain extent in corn or in cattle; and in the land itself, undoubtedly. His steward acts for him, and so do clerks for a great merchant. A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs[1015]. A Judge may play a little at cards for his amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or at chuck-farthing in the Piazza. No, Sir; there is no profession to which a man gives a very great proportion of his time. It is wonderful, when a calculation is made, ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell
... Lintona, which Ailward Touchstone held on the day on which King Edward was alive and dead, and with this manor was added formerly another called Incrintona, which Algar held. These are held by William for one manor, and they rendered geld for one hide. . . . Lintona is worth four pounds and Incrintona three pounds. When William received them Lintona was worth 20 shillings and ...
— Lynton and Lynmouth - A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland • John Presland
... Sie nachgeben, dem Anschein nach ungern, unwillkurlich, van der Laune des Augenblicks hingerissen—und, was die Hauptsache ist, lautlos, heimlich vor mir. Sie verstehen? Dafur zahlen Narren ein schweres Geld. Ubrigens brauche ich Sie ...
— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin
... Jnger, Einen mutigen, klugen Mann, Mattheus geheissen, Er war beamteter edler Mnner. Er sollte zu Hnden seines Herrn hier annehmen Zins und Zoll. Treue zeichnete ihn aus, 1195 Den angesehenen Adeligen; alles zusammen verliess er, Gold und Geld, die Gaben in Menge, Hochwerte Schtze, und er ward unseres Herrn Dienstmann. Es erkor sich des Knigs Degen Kristus als Herrn, Der milderen Gemtes gab, als der, dessen Mann er war, 1200 Ihn, der waltet ber diese Welt; wonnigere Gaben ...
— An anthology of German literature • Calvin Thomas |
