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  • One of the "Honourables" -- all of whom she knew -- was always to be found near the Town Hall, and Eva understood her sister's anxiety and went with her willingly.

    In the Fire of the Forge — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • One of the "Honourables" -- all of whom she knew -- was always to be found near the

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • One of the "Honourables" -- all of whom she knew -- was always to be found near the Town Hall, and Eva understood her sister's anxiety and went with her willingly.

    In the Fire of the Forge — Volume 06 Georg Ebers 1867

  • 'We are like walking corpses, and when we go out there, we have even been told that we do not even deserve to be called Honourables,' Anywar said.

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  • Yet the daughter has guessed aright, and I have kept the 'Honourables' waiting, that I might tell you the news myself; for what may not such tidings become whilst passing from lip to lip!

    In the Fire of the Forge — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • A shoemaker who recently upbraided the 'Honourables' for something similar was publicly scourged, and if cruelties have been practised here it is the fault of the law, not of the judges.

    In the Fire of the Forge — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • Thus she had imagined the faithful Eckart, thus her own Wolff might look some day when age had bleached his hair and labour and anxiety had lined his lofty brow with wrinkles; Berthold Vorchtel, and other "Honourables" who resembled him; grey-haired Conrad Gross; tall, broad-shouldered

    In the Fire of the Forge — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • "Honourables," in the shady walk near the main gate.

    In the Fire of the Forge — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • True, the Burgrave von Zollern had not come to visit him in person, like many "Honourables" and gentlemen, but he had sent his son Eitelfritz to enquire how he fared, and the prisoner was occupied with the petition which he wished to send the sovereign the next day through Meister

    In the Fire of the Forge — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • It was a long time since they had been here, and a few weeks previously the "Honourables" had had the pillory moved from the other side of the

    In the Fire of the Forge — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

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