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Examples

  • ’ Then broke into the fragment of a High-Dutch song.

    Chapter XXXIV 1917

  • 'He spoils my game and then jabbers High-Dutch at me.'

    Greenmantle John Buchan 1907

  • Cesarian Majesty writ formerly hither in High-Dutch, and whether then they styled his Tzarskoy Majesty Durchluchtigste which is the same with Illustrissimus, and which I believe the Caesar hath kept for

    Andrew Marvell Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 1905

  • The two parties being confronted before him, each produced a book of accounts, written in a language and character that would have puzzled any but a High-Dutch commentator or a learned decipherer of Egyptian obelisks.

    Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I Various 1900

  • The two parties being confronted before him, each produced a book of accounts, written in a language and character that would have puzzled any but a High-Dutch commentator, or a learned decipherer of Egyptian obelisks.

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) Various 1887

  • The two parties being confronted before him, each produced a book of accounts, written in a language and character that would have puzzled any but a High-Dutch commentator, or a learned decipherer of Egyptian obelisks.

    Washington Irving Warner, Charles D 1881

  • A High-Dutch Columbus, from Vienna, had been before me, and I could only come in for Amerigo Vespucci's tempered glory.

    Italian Journeys William Dean Howells 1878

  • We would call to our meeting Gabriel Harvey with his new Italian books and pamphlets; and Spenser, if possible, should be there; Dr. Dee would tell the piteous story of his four thousand volumes, printed and unprinted, Greek, in French, and High-Dutch MSS., etc., and of forty years spent in gathering the books that were all on their way to the pawnshop.

    The Great Book-Collectors Charles Isaac Elton 1869

  • In reply to my grandfather's renewed demand to know whether any one of those High-Dutch women had got hold of me, Peterborough said: 'Mr. Beltham, the only lady of whom it could be suspected that my friend Harry regarded her with more than ordinary admiration was Hereditary-Princess of one of the ancient princely Houses of Germany.'

    The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868

  • In reply to my grandfather's renewed demand to know whether any one of those High-Dutch women had got hold of me, Peterborough said: 'Mr. Beltham, the only lady of whom it could be suspected that my friend Harry regarded her with more than ordinary admiration was

    The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete George Meredith 1868

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