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"Oh, yes. Quite, quite different." Frau Knapf smoothed her spotless skirt and shook her head slowly and sadly. "So-o-o-o, by Amerika they come. And Konrad Nirlanger he is maybe a little cross and so, because for a year they have been in the courts, and it might have been the money they would lose, and for money Konrad Nirlanger cares well, you shall see. But Frau Nirlanger must not mourn and cry.
"Bitte, geben sie mir ein Glas Wasser," was repeated so many times that all understood it. The fact that they were Americans insured them a warm welcome, and many an inquiry was made for "meinem Sohn in Amerika." The "walkists" enjoyed this intercourse with the people so much that they walked till they were unnecessarily fatigued.
She held out her hands until they nearly touched his breast. "Philip Raine Amerika!" she cried. Then, pressing her hands to her own breast, she added eagerly: "Celie Armin Danmark!" "Denmark!" exclaimed Philip. "Is that it, little girl? You're from Denmark? Denmark!" She nodded. "Kobenhavn Danmark!" "Copenhagen, Denmark," he translated for himself.
Sweden and Denmark are the only countries known to them besides their own "Gamle Norge," save such vague notions of other lands as they pick up from occasional travelers. To them "Amerika" is a terra incognita. They firmly believe in ghosts and supernatural visitations of all sorts, but are very incredulous about any country in the world being equal to "Gamle Norge."
I shall be also one of those so-admired ladies. My money shall go for gowns! For hats! For trifles of lace and velvet and fur! You shall learn that it is not a peasant woman whom you have married. This is Amerika, the land of the free, my husband. And see! Who is more of Amerika than I? Who?" She laughed a high little laugh and came over to me, taking my hands in her own.
The London underwriters cabled five thousand dollars reward and retained to investigate the case a well-known American agency, which before the 'Amerika' had reached Plymouth on her return trip had their notifications in the hands of all the jewelers and police officials of Europe and the United States, and had covered every avenue of disposal in North and South America.
Læflingii Petri iter Hispanicum. Stockholm, 1758. 8vo. This work, originally published in Swedish, was translated by C. Linnæus into German, under the following title: Reise nach den Spanischen Landern in Europa und Amerika, 1751 56. Berlin, 1776. 8vo. It is chiefly valuable for its natural history information. Voyage en Amérique, en Italie, en Sicile, et en Egypte, 1816 19. 2 vols. 8vo.
Cultural, technological and educational exchanges with the Soviet Union have been encouraged, and a comprehensive agreement was made which authorized, among other things, the distribution of our Russian language magazine Amerika and the highly successful American Exhibition in Moscow.
Why indeed? except that older than all history and all written records has been the fear and wonderment of the children of men over the failure of the Sun's strength in Autumn the decay of their God; and the anxiety lest by any means he should not revive or reappear? See C. F. P. von Martius, Etknographie Amerika, etc.
"Great Scott, Celie we're TALKING! Celie Armin, from Copenhagen, Denmark! But how in Heaven's name did you get HERE?" He pointed to the floor under their feet and embraced the four walls of the cabin in a wide gesture of his arms. "How did you get HERE?" Her next words thrilled him. "Kobenhavn Muskvas St. Petersburg Rusland Sibirien Amerika." "Copenhagen Muskvas, whatever that is St.
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