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"Anyone who welches on that will pay a very high price for years to come."

From BBC • Sep. 21, 2014

Morgan returns to his tourist fishing parties, only to have his fishing tackle lost overboard by a tourist, who at cruise-end welches on making the loss good.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dr. van der Linde does not speak well of this reprint which appeared in:--Schaltjahr, welches ist der teutsch Kalendar, durch J. Scheible.

From Game and Playe of the Chesse A Verbatim Reprint of the First Edition, 1474 by Caxton, William

That the Captivi is "das vortrefflichste Stück, welches jemals auf den Schauplatz gekommen ist," as Lessing declares in the Preface to his translation of the play, is an utterance that leaves us gasping.

From The Dramatic Values in Plautus by Blancké, Wilton Wallace

Ueber das menschliche Elend, welches durch Missbrauch der Zeugung herbeigeführt wird, 1828.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm