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Vines grow upon the slope eastward, "Neve tibi ad solem vergant vineta cadentem," Scipio, a stanch Numidian, has gone to market with three asses loaded with cabbages and asparagus. The thrush-house is properly darkened, only enough light entering to show the food to some three or four thousand birds, which are in course of cramming for the market.
He spoke in the detestable idiom of the Oriental Jew. Benda was politely cold. The main point was still to come: “Vineta” had aroused Wurzelmann’s profound admiration; he had read the score on the side: “A great talent, Doctor, a talent such as we have not had for a long, long while,” said Wurzelmann. “Yes, but what am I to say about Herr Dörmaul’s opinion?” asked Benda.
"No! I have not dreamt," said Thumbietot, and he told the stork all that he had experienced. Then Herr Ermenrich said: "For my part, Thumbietot, I believe that you fell asleep here on the strand and dreamed all this. "But I will not conceal from you that Bataki, the raven, who is the most learned of all birds, once told me that in former times there was a city on this shore, called Vineta.
On January 6th the German cruiser the Vineta and the gunboat the Habicht entered the Congo and the Governor General gave a dinner to the officers to which I received the honour of an invitation. I am tempted to give the menu to show that although living in the Upper Congo is not good, as a rule, in Boma it is possible to give a banquet worthy of anyone.
Then he no longer grieved over that matter. And there are probably many among the young who think in the same way. But when people are old, and have become accustomed to being satisfied with little, then they are more happy over the Visby that exists, than over a magnificent Vineta at the bottom of the sea. Tuesday, April twelfth.
He has taken a lofty flight; the azure gates of renown have swung wide open to him. Let him only be cautious about his second descent into the night.” The same connoisseur found the composition of “Vineta” less ingenious, and its instrumentation suffering from the lean experience of a beginner. Yet even this work was strongly applauded.
Then we cross the Giniguada wady by a bridge with a wooden floor, iron railings, and stone piers, and enter the Vineta, or official, as opposed to the commercial, town. On the south side is the fish-market, new, pretty, and gingerbread.
And one night in every hundred years, it rises in all its splendour up from the sea, and remains on the surface just one hour." "Yes, it must be so," said Thumbietot, "for this I have seen." "But when the hour is up, it sinks again into the sea, if, during that time, no merchant in Vineta has sold anything to a single living creature.
When the sharp outlines of the red cliffs of Heligoland appeared, the German cruiser Seeadler came from the island to meet the squadron and reported that the coast ironclads Aegir and Odin, the cruisers Hansa, Vineta, Freya, and Hertha, together with the torpedo-boats, had set out from Wilhelmshaven during the night and had seen nothing of the enemy. The sea appeared free.
The traveller who visits Cleve will still find a tombstone in its church with a knight carved on it, and a swan sitting at his feet. Stavoren A strange story is still told about the city of Stavoren on the Zuydersea. It was a wondrous town, but like Vineta on the Baltic Sea it vanished from the earth.
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