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  • The old man fortunately escaped his threatened fate, but, notwithstanding the entreaties and tears of the inhabitants, the sentence upon Prahl was carried into execution.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • Before they evacuated the town, an old man, and a butcher named Prahl, were condemned to be shot.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • In the Danish paper with the widest circulation, the Daily Paper, foreign affairs were dealt with by a man of the name of Prahl, a wildly enthusiastic admirer of the Empire, a pleasant man and a brainy, but who, on this vital point, seemed to have blinkers on.

    Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth Brandes, George, 1842-1927 1906

  • Of popular old tales of religious bearing may be mentioned the retention and elaboration of the Brahmanic deluge-story, with Manu as Noah (iii. 187); the Açvins 'feats in rejuvenating (iii. 123); the combats of the gods with the demons (Namuci, Çambara, Vala, Vritra, Prahl [= a] da, Naraka), etc.

    The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894

  • Before they evacuated the town, an old man, and a butcher named Prahl, were condemned to be shot.

    The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836

  • The old man fortunately escaped his threatened fate, but, notwithstanding the entreaties and tears of the inhabitants, the sentence upon Prahl was carried into execution.

    The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836

  • The old man fortunately escaped his threatened fate, but, notwithstanding the entreaties and tears of the inhabitants, the sentence upon Prahl was carried into execution.

    Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801

  • Before they evacuated the town, an old man, and a butcher named Prahl, were condemned to be shot.

    Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801

  • Shot: 1, Talbert FDL 39-4; 2, Riese FDL 35-5; 3, Prahl AW 29-0.

    The Appleton Post-Crescent Latest Headlines 2010

  • "You know us Southerners, we all freak out when it snows," said Prahl, 26.

    American Chronicle 2009

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