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Updated: June 8, 2025

At St. Avold we began to lose the French language, and from this my fluency was reduced to signs, or at most to a very laconic speech "Ich Englander, Ich woll haben Brod mitt Café," &c. At Dendrich, a little village near Forbach, we crossed the new line of demarcation between France and Austria, and found the towns chiefly occupied by Bavarians.

Edward Stanley - Before and after Waterloo : Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816)

Wenn haber man kann nicht meinem Rede Verstehen, so werde ich ihm später dasselbe uebersetz, wenn er solche Dienst verlangen wollen haben werden sollen sein hätte.

Mark Twain - A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07

And then, after contending that Brentano's Rheinmärchen, which, though written before 1823, were not published until 1846, must have given Heine the hair-combing motif, Thorn says: "Also kann nur Brentano das Vorbild geliefert haben." This cannot be correct. What is, on the contrary, at least possible is that Heine influenced Brentano. The Rheinmärchen were finished, in first form, in 1816.

Allen Wilson Porterfield - Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei

The savory fumes of hot sauerkraut aroused the warrior from his reveries, and he asked, in vociferous delight: "Was haben sie? Kohlen, nicht wahr sauerkraut das is aber schon?" "Yes, mein golonel, I hof cabbage und sauerkraut und" looking about circumspectly "etwas schnapps aus Antwerpen gebracht?"

Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan - The Iron Game: A Tale of the War

Elise L 's example shows me that I should have been able to get a husband later; indeed, one a hundred times better if I had but waited. "Ich möchte gerne etwas geniessen ohne 'Kosten' zu haben." A a pun upon the word "kosten," which has two meanings "taste" and "cost."

Sigmund Freud - Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

"He blazoned our shield with the ominous motto, 'in der fix, Haben nix, over gules d'or on a stony field, which was sown to a harvest of tares and oats, and embossed with a whirlwind rampant. As they were in knightly honor bound to live up to the motto on their shield, my ancestor were doomed to remain poor forever.

George (Henry George August) Hartmann - Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales

This projecting a world from the gaseous elements of one's own cranium and dealing with that world, instead of the world that exists, is a danger to everybody concerned. "Bedauernswert sei es allerdings, dass wir in unserem politischen Leben nicht mit gentlemen zu thun haben, dies sei aber em Begriff der uns überhaupt abgehe," writes Prince Hohenlohe in his memoirs.

Price Collier - Germany and the Germans : From an American Point of View

Schicken sie mir doch ihrem spiegel, der nächts ihrem fenster hängt auf ein paar stunden der meinige ist gebrochen, haben sie zugleich die Güte haben wolten mir noch heute einen solchen zu kaufen so erzeigten sie mir einen grossen Gefallen. Ihre Auslage sollen sie sogleich zurük erhalten. Verzeien sie lieber Z meiner zudringlichkeit. Ich hoffe sie bald zu sehen. Ihr, BTHVN.

George Alexander Fischer - Beethoven, a character study : Together with Wagner's indebtedness to Beethoven

Ich haben der todt Kinder gesehn. But it was a fact. A woman who had missed these things could still be useful more useful than a man in certain respects. She thumped like a pavior through the settling ashes at the secret thrill of it. The rain was damping the fire, but she could feel it was too dark to see that her work was done.

Rudyard Kipling - A Diversity of Creatures

Sie haben mich betrügen. I want you to take the ticket back and return me the money. What you say can I not understand." He expostulated, gesticulated, and fumed, but I kept up the bombardment until he had to surrender. He motioned to me to step round into the office, where he took the ticket and returned the money.

Simon Newcomb - The Reminiscences of an Astronomer