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Updated: June 1, 2025

Er trat mein Hündchen auf das Bein, Hilf Himmel! Welch’ ein Lamentiren! Es hätte mögen einen Stein Der Strasse zum Erbarmen rühren, Auch wedelt’ ihm in einem Nu Das Hündgen schon Vergebung zu. Ach! Hündchen, du beschämst mich sehr, Denn dass mir Mops von meinem Leben Drey Stunden stahl, wie schwer, wie schwer, Wird’s halten, das ihm zu vergeben?

Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman) Hewett-Thayer - Laurence Sterne in Germany: A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of: England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century

These God-fearing peasants had taken a German name because the founder of their sect had been converted at the Stunden, or hour-long services, of German Lutherans long settled in the south of Russia; they held a simple evangelical faith; their conduct was admittedly far better than that of the peasants, who held to the mass of customs and superstitions dignified by the name of the orthodox Greek creed; and their piety and zeal served to spread the evangelical faith, especially among the more emotional people of South Russia, known as Little Russians.

John Holland Rose - The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)

Had he meant to say this, I imagine he would have used a totally different phrase: e. g. dass wir binnen kaum mehr als 6 Stunden nach London schön gekommen sind; or something like these words.

Various - Notes and Queries, Number 05, December 1, 1849