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beck

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Beck is a surname of Germanic descent, meaning " brook " or " stream " (related to Old Norse bekkr ), and is fairly common in English-speaking countries, Germany and Denmark . The German name can also be a variant of Becker , which is an occupational surname ...

Usage examples of beck.

For ourselves, while whatever in us belongs to the body of the All should be yielded to its action, we ought to make sure that we submit only within limits, realizing that the entire man is not thus bound to it: intelligent servitors yield a part of themselves to their masters but in part retain their personality, and are thus less absolutely at beck and call, as not being slaves, not utterly chattels.

General Beck made his last-minute preparations for directing the coup until Stauffenberg could return by air from his murderous deed.

A fine Greek scholar as well as eminent economist, he, along with General Beck and Hassell, was a member of the Wednesday Club, a group of sixteen intellectuals who gathered once a week to discuss philosophy, history, art, science and literature and who as time went on - or ran out - formed one of the centers of the opposition.

August 14, Hassell dined alone with Beck, and recorded their feeling of frustration in his diary.

Berlin Ambassador von Hassell used the holidays to confer with his fellow conspirators, Popitz, Goerdeler and General Beck, and on December 30 recorded in his diary the latest plan.

And also some differences, for Stauffenberg was not satisfied with the kind of stodgy, conservative, colorless regime which the old rusty leaders of the conspiracy, Beck, Goerdeler and Hassell, envisaged as soon as National Socialism was overthrown.

Returning to Germany and forced to retire, he joined the opposition circle led by General Beck, Goerdeler, Hassell and others and for a time was marked to become Foreign Minister of an anti-Hitler regime.

Vhen der war hef godt over, I go beck to Ulm und gedt marriet, und den I gedt demn sick von der armie.

He got out his wallet and peeled off the equivalent of three hund mi dollars--about twenty bills--knowing that would buy a beck of a lot of joy juice.

Beck rang several upward-lilting arpeggios on his little bells as Autumn levitated from her split, slowly scissoring her legs together again and levering herself upright on the rope.

CHAPTER VI Politeness required that General Ople should not appear to rejoice in his dismissal as a suitor, and should at least make some show of holding himself at the beck of a reconsidering mind.

The sea party was composed of Nilsen, Gjertsen, Beck, SundBeck, Ludvig Hansen, Kristensen, Ronne, Nodtvedt, Kutschin, and Olsen.

Thinking like an animal, Beck wailed a Sasquatch wail of alarm, loud and throaty, again and again, grabbing roots and small bushes to pull herself away from those hands, those teeth, those glaring eyes.

The Taker, however, has an army of sahuagin, morkoth, and koalinth at his beck and call that are already invading lands that can be used as staging arenas to attack Eadraal.

So now, since Beck has not yet taught dirad to distinguish between a live tangling and a dead huttown child, we will have to sanctify this death ourselves.