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Updated: May 4, 2025

Billeting officers had gone from house to house, chalking upon the doors such legends as "Drei Männer," "6 Offiziere Eingang verboten," and, on rare occasions "Gute Leute hier." The trembling inhabitants had been forced to wait on their uninvited guests as they clamoured noisily for wine and liqueurs.

John Hartman Morgan - Leaves from a Field Note-Book

Don't you know that I must give warning of your presence?" exclaimed Robert passionately. The Frenchman laughed lightly. He seemed very well pleased with himself, and then he hummed: "Hier sur le pont d'Avignon J'ai oui chanter la belle Lon, la." "Your danger is great!" repeated Robert. "Not as great as you think," said St. Luc. "You will not protect me.

Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler - The Shadow of the North: A Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign

Then he left Malbrouck, and it was: "Hier sur le pont d'Avignon J'ai oui chanter la belle Lon, la, J'ai oui chanter la belle Elle chantait d'un ton si doux Comme une demoiselle Lon, la, Comme une demoiselle."

Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler - The Hunters of the Hills

She crept closer, still crouching, and lay at his feet, and her voice was like something crying and wrestling. "Hier bin ich Vater: Gebiete die Strafe . . . Du verstösest mich? Versteh' ich den Sinn? Nimmst du mir alles was einst du gabst?" Her voice sobbed, dying away into a tone pure, soft, heart-breaking, like a breath; yet it penetrated and filled the stage, the wings, and came echoing back.

Olive M. (Olive Mary) Briggs - The Black Cross

Beneath the frescoes he put the words: "Hier wo mein Wähnen Frieden fand, Wahnfried sei dieses Haus von mir benannt," which may be Englished: "Here, where my illusions respite found, 'Illusion-Respite' let this house by me be crowned." In this home, plain in its exterior, but full of richness within, Wagner lived at ease with his wife and her four children.

Rupert Hughes - The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2

Die Aussicht auf dem Koenigsstuhl mehr grösser ist, aber geistlische sprechend nicht so schön, lob' Gott! Because sie sind hier zusammengetroffen, in Bruderlichem concord, ein grossen Tag zu feirn, whose high benefits were not for one land and one locality, but have conferred a measure of good upon all lands that know liberty today, and love it.

Mark Twain - A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07

My dear Sir, Votre tante, Madame Austin, qui est ici depuis quinze jours, a fait hier, en se promenant dans une petite voiture trainee par un ane, et qu'elle menait elle-meme, une chute dans laquelle elle s'est fait, au coude du bras droit, une luxation qui nous a fait craindre d'abord une fracture grave.

John Knox Laughton - Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. : In Two Volumes. Volume II.

Love, is it time, after the services I have perform'd, to have some salary? Noe labourer works without his hier; I would Be satisfied when you determine we Shall end our hopes in marriage. Cla. I have lookt for this month in my Calender And find that marriage is prohibited. Thu.

Various - A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2

In one village some German soldier wrote in chalk on the door of a house where he had been well received, "Güte Leute hier," and these poor people got chalk and tried to copy the difficult German writing on every door in the street. I am afraid that did not save them, however, when their turn came.

Violetta Thurstan - Field Hospital and Flying Column: Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia

Luc, who stood always with Montcalm, hummed softly and under his breath: "Hier, sur le pont d'Avignon, j'ai oui chanter la belle." "It goes well," he said to Montcalm. "Aye, a fair beginning," replied the Marquis. Fire ran through French veins. No cannon balls were coming from the enemy to sweep down their defenses.

Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler - The Lords of the Wild: A Story of the Old New York Border