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Wilelmina, we always call her Minna, she is 24, then Lawrence is about
Daisy Ashford: Her Book Daisy Ashford 1926
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I say, who call my Minna's mother 'Jezebel,' and my Minna herself
Jezebel's Daughter Wilkie Collins 1856
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Wilfrid, as he devoured the pages of the prophet, lived by his inner senses only; the pastor, looking up at times from his book, called Minna's attention to the absorption of their guest with an air that was half-serious, half-jesting.
Seraphita Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Nintendo offers Everyone's Recommendation Selection budget lineup in Japan Nintendo has lifted the veils on their first budget lineup for Wii software in Japan, dubbed the Minna no Osusume Selection, or Everyone's Recommendation Selection in English.
Neoseeker News Feed 2010
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(if I didn't know any better, this should be considered as treason) which has caused a lot of trouble for the witches … namely Minna (why do you have to do this, Yoshika).
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The dark-eyed 'Minna' look'd to Heaven, the gentle 'Brenda' wept;
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 574, November 3, 1832 Title Various
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Out of hearing, Gräfin von Stachelberg -- who, however, to facilitate intercourse, begged Vivie to call her "Minna," -- "We may all be dead, my dear, before long of blood-poisoning, bombs from your aeroplanes, a rising against us in the Marolles quarter --" said very plainly what she thought of Edith Cavell's execution.
Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892
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Yet in his "Minna" and his "Emilia" [161] he shows one faculty of the dramatist, that of construction, in a higher degree than any other
Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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Lessing, in the first two acts of his "Minna," had set up an unattainable model of the way in which a drama should be developed; and nothing was to me of greater importance than to thoroughly enter into his meaning and views.
Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790
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The former became by degrees quite epigrammatical in his poems, terse in "Minna," laconic in "Emilia Galotti," -- it was not till afterwards that he returned to that serene/naiveté/which becomes him so well in "Nathan."
Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790
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