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Updated: June 13, 2025
And one of these will walk in the woods alone and kill the Pongos with their poysoned arrows." The existence of this tribe has been established by a German expedition, one of the members of which, Dr. Falkenstein, photographed and measured an adult male whose stature was four feet six inches.
As they reached the landing, a door opened, and the emperor's valet stepped out into the ball. "His majesty!" exclaimed he, quickly moving aside and standing stiff as a sentry by the door. "His majesty!" echoed the landlord. "This gentleman this Your majesty have I " "I am Count Falkenstein," replied the emperor, amused.
The knight of Sayn related his adventure with the earth-spirit, upon which the Lord of Falkenstein told him how a terrible thunderstorm mingled with unearthly noises had raged throughout the night.
The future Emperor of Germany is yet a vassal, and he who goes to France to day is nothing but a Count of Falkenstein. There was great commotion at the post-house of the little town of Vitry.
The door of the first anteroom was heard to open, and the servant turned an angry look toward two gentlemen who made their appearance. "Ah," said he, "the two gentlemen who just now alighted from the hackney-coach?" "The same," said the emperor. "Is monsieur le comte at home?" "He is," said the servant pompously. "Then be so good as to announce to him Count Falkenstein."
But the queen would not hear of it: she said it was childish and impossible; so the carriage was got ready for her, and she started without saying a word of good-bye to anyone. The king, Benson, and the prince were not so particular, and they simply flew back to Falkenstein in the usual way, arriving there at 11.35 a week before her majesty.
Like the old crests of heraldry, with their "canting" mottoes beneath, they are history in little, a war or a revolution distilled into the powerful attar of a single phrase. The Rhineland towers of Falkenstein and Stolzenfels are the local counterparts of the Scotch borderers' "Thou shalt want ere I want," for ominous meaning.
Falkenstein, the medicus and zoologist, in November 1873 reported favourably of Chinxoxo. The station is situated on a hilly ridge commanding a view of the sea. "It looks imposing enough, but it would produce more effect if we could hoist the German flag, as the other establishments here do those of their respective nations.
Flemming declined the invitation; and proposedto Berkley, that he should join him in his excursion on the lake. "You shall hear the grand echo of the Falkenstein," said he, "and behold the scene of the Bridal Tragedy; and then we will go on as far as the village of Saint Wolfgang, which you have not yet seen, except across the lake."
The Countess von Falkenstein!" murmured her lover more to himself than to, his eager listener, the lines on his perplexed brow showing that he was endeavouring to adjust the real and the ideal in his slow brain. "A Countess, Herbert, who will joyfully exchange the privileges of her station for the dear preference shown to the serving-maid."
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