Lierre

We discovered we were in a town called Lierre, which seemed to consist chiefly of bankrupt pastry cooks, who sold lemonade.

Tremendous Trifles 1905

Like Lierre Keith but less extreme, when young I swallowed the veggie myth hook line and sinker.

Are we meat eaters or vegetarians? Part I | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

Sept. 29 -- Germans occupy Moll and Malines, bombard Lierre, and shell outer forts of Antwerp; fighting on the Aisne continues.

The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 Various

It is only when viewed in this setting that a scene such as that we saw at Lierre can be understood.

A Surgeon in Belgium Henry Sessions Souttar 1919

At any moment a shell might enter one of the wards, and -- well, we had seen the hospital at Lierre.

A Surgeon in Belgium Henry Sessions Souttar 1919

Lierre is an old-world town on the River Nethe, nine miles south of

A Surgeon in Belgium Henry Sessions Souttar 1919

Without the physical advantages of Antwerp, and without the turbulence of Ghent, Lierre has escaped their strange vicissitudes, and for hundreds of years has enjoyed the prosperity of a quiet and industrious town.

A Surgeon in Belgium Henry Sessions Souttar 1919

Many and many a one of the light-hearted lads with whom I marched down the Lierre road on that October afternoon were destined never again to feel beneath their feet the flags of Piccadilly, never again to lounge in Leicester Square.

Fighting in Flanders 1918

Lierre and Waelhem and Duffel were like sieves dripping blood.

Fighting in Flanders 1918

Nearly a week before the surrender of the city, the municipal waterworks, near Lierre, had been destroyed by shells from the German siege guns, so that when the Germans entered the city the sanitary conditions had become intolerable and an epidemic was impending.

Fighting in Flanders 1918