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  • She had never walked so quickly through the streets of Prague before; and when she reached the end of the Windberg-gasse, she had to pause a moment to collect her thoughts and her breath.

    Nina Balatka 2004

  • On that same evening some one rang the bell at the door of the house in the Windberg-gasse in a most humble manner — with that weak, hesitating hand which, by the tone which it produces, seems to insinuate that no one need hurry to answer such an appeal, and that the answer, when made, may be made by the lowest personage in the house.

    Nina Balatka 2004

  • He was seated at the table in the kitchen almost as soon as he had entered the house in the Windberg-gasse, and found his plate full before him.

    Nina Balatka 2004

  • Windberg-gasse, beneath which there was to her a hell upon earth.

    Nina Balatka 2004

  • As she walked to the Windberg-gasse, still holding the parcel of notes in her hand, she had no such qualms of conscience; but as she returned, when it was altogether too late for repentance, she made pictures to herself of terrible scenes in which her father suffered all the pangs of want, because she had compelled him to part with this money.

    Nina Balatka 2004

  • As soon as Anton should desire her to declare her purpose, she would declare it; and as he who stands on a precipice, contemplating the expediency of throwing himself from the rock, will feel himself gradually seized by a mad desire to do the deed out of hand at once, so did Nina feel anxious to walk off to the Windberg-gasse, and dare and endure all that the

    Nina Balatka 2004

  • The result of her communication to her father and her relatives in the Windberg-gasse had been by no means so terrible as she had anticipated.

    Nina Balatka 2004

  • The Jew returned at once into the synagogue, having during the interview with Ziska worn the short white surplice in which he had been found; and Ziska returned at once to his own house in the Windberg-gasse.

    Nina Balatka 2004

  • Windberg-gasse, leaving her father still in his bed.

    Nina Balatka 2004

  • With the dissolution of the Austrian Empire, the Lubonskis and the Bukowskis, like other Polish officials, found no further reason to spend the better part of each year in Vienna, so the families had sold their holdings in that city, and the evening galas in Anna - gasse were no more.

    Poland Michener, James 1983

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