Meer

Blue van Meer is a great narrator, one whom the reader can trust but who undergoes a rapid evolution.

A Conversation with Marisha Pessl 2010

Fifteen-year-old Mallory Meer is one of some 1,300 pleasure-goers, mostly German Lutherans on a church outing, on the Slocum; another passenger is Dustin Brauer, the sixteen-year-old Jewish boy she fancies.

Heady reading Roger Sutton 2006

Her father, Gareth van Meer, is her opposite: charming and callous, verbose and secretive.

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl: Questions 2006

There were no daily papers in Meer, and now there were no young men to go to the city and bring back the gossip of the day, as there had used to be.

The Belgian Twins 1917

There is one idea I have-a memory of an ancient kin - ship that we of Melnibone had for a being called Meer - clar.

The Bane of the Black Sword Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

There is one idea I have-a memory of an ancient kin - ship that we of Melnibone had for a being called Meer - clar.

The Bane of The Black Sword Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

"Meer," and she indicated the bronze, "and Talla know how to be silent when they wish.

Dragon Drums McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1979

"Meer," and she indicated the bronze, "and Talla know how to be silent when they wish.

Dragon Drums McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1979

Thanks to Eliot, one line at least of High German may have crept into the consciousness of many an operatically resistant A-level English student: "Oed 'und leer das Meer" – desolate and empty the sea – sung by the shepherd looking out for Isolde's ship in Act 3, as Tristan lies dying.

Tristan und Isolde; LSO/Gergiev Fiona Maddocks 2010

Despite the current difficulties, Meer said she does not fear for her daughters 'future in the U.S.

U.S. Muslims Ask: When Will The Blame Game End? The Huffington Post News Team 2010