"Tret" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... gentleman. This potentate, for a long series of time, appeared from the hour of twelve till that of two at a coffee-house near the 'Change, and had a seat (though without a canopy) sacred to himself, where he gave diurnal audiences concerning commerce, politics, tare and tret, usury and abatement, with all things necessary for helping the distressed, who were willing to give one limb for the better maintenance of the rest; or such joyous youths, whose philosophy is confined to the present hour, and were desirous ...
— The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 • George A. Aitken
... pure prose against Pope. One he had in conjunction with Fenton for verses delivered on the premises at so much per hundred, on which there could be no demur, except as to the allowance for tare and tret as a discount in favor of Pope. But the prose account, the account for notes, requiring very various degrees of reading and research, allowed of no such easy equation. There it was, we conceive, that Broome's discontent arose. Pope, however, declares, that he had ...
— Biographical Essays • Thomas de Quincey
... better still, to give the 5,000 men some thirty seconds of intense anxiety, while the wind plays between their fingers and over their hands and round the bowls of their pipes. Multiplying the men by the seconds (5,000 x 30) you get approximately the amount of the wind, in wear and tare and tret. If this experiment were conducted on a duly extensive scale round London; say at Brixton, Kensington, Holloway and Stepney; there can be no doubt that a cyclone would be established, and the fog effectually dissipated. The cost would be slight, and the ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 102, Feb. 20, 1892 • Various
... brunnen gieng, Und das was seuberlichen; Begegnet im ein stolzer knab, Der grsst sie herziglichen. Sie setzt das krglein neben sich 5 Und fraget, wer er were. Er kusts an iren roten mund: Ir seit mir nit unmere,[16] Tret here! Das meidlein tregt pantoffel an, 10 Darin tuts einher schnappen. Wer ir nicht recht zusprechen kan, Dem schneidt sie bald ein kappen[17]; Kein tuch daran nit wirt gespart, Kan einen hflich zwagen,[18] 15 Spricht, sie woll nit mer unser sein, Sie hab ein andren knaben, ...
— An anthology of German literature • Calvin Thomas
... get no one else off-hand who has so good an education," said Roger. "He can write a fair-copy, cipher, and keep books. I'll warrant, Mr. Johnston, that not even you can catch him napping with a problem in tare and tret. Above all, the Websters know him well and will be glad to see ...
— The Mutineers • Charles Boardman Hawes
... the coal trade it is customary for the merchant to receive from the pit 21 cwts. of coal for every ton purchased by him, the difference of 1 cwt. being the allowance for the purpose of making good the waste caused through transhipment, screening and cartage (see TARE AND TRET.) ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... action, and so they obtain the highest course, i.e., salvation by absorption into brahma. In this age the 'three attributes' (or qualities) are unknown. After this age follows the dawn of the second age, called Tret[a], lasting three hundred years, then the real age of Tret[a], three thousand years, followed by the twilight of three hundred years. The characteristics of this age are, that men are devout; that great sacrifices ...
— The Religions of India - Handbooks On The History Of Religions, Volume 1, Edited By Morris Jastrow • Edward Washburn Hopkins |
