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  • Effi, on the other hand, joyously assented to her father's plan, without so much as stopping to think whether he had meant it as a jest or in earnest, for her thoughts were occupied far, far more with the impression she and her mother should make by their appearance at the table d'hôte, than with Spinn and Mencke, Goschenhofer, and other such firms, whose names had been provisionally entered in her memorandum book.

    The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various

  • In the old days, when Mr.. Mencke had so offended against upper-tendom by eloping with the poor clerk in her father's employ, Mr.. Hawley had dropped her from her extensive list of acquaintances; but after Mr. Huntington's death, when the young couple came into possession of a handsome inheritance, the former friendship was renewed and their intimacy, if anything, had been closer than during their youthful days.

    His Heart's Queen Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 1884

  • Doctor Norton easily found the residence of Violet Huntington's friends on Auburn avenue, and as he mounted the massive granite steps and rang the bell of the handsome house he read the name of Mencke on the silver door-plate.

    His Heart's Queen Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 1884

  • Lady Cameron and Mr.. Mencke could only exist by lying, lightly clad, in hammocks swung upon the north piazza of the hotel, while Mr. Mencke idled away the hours as best he could, in the smoking and reading-room, or in imbibing mint juleps.

    His Heart's Queen Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 1884

  • "She was throwing a lot of high and outside pitches, so you could just drive it," Mencke said.

    Chronicle-Telegram 2009

  • Sydney Mencke initiated the scoring in the bottom of the first when she drove an RBI triple to the gap in left-center.

    Chronicle-Telegram 2009

  • "It's been a while since I hit a good one like that," Mencke said.

    Chronicle-Telegram 2009

  • "It's been a while since I hit a good one like that," Mencke said.

    Chronicle-Telegram 2009

  • Clean-up hitter Elizabeth Fazekas followed with another RBI triple that scored Mencke.

    Chronicle-Telegram 2009

  • Mencke went 3-for-4 with two RBIs and three runs scored.

    Chronicle-Telegram 2009

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