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  • I went about my rounds that night with a spring in my step as I pushed my cart through the nocturnal neon of Moabit and Tiergarten between the Spree and Quitzowstrasse.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • On the night of April 22, 1945, the writer Albrecht Haushofer was taken out of Moabit Prison in Berlin as Soviet guns thundered in the city's suburbs.

    Fearsome Days Giles MacDonogh 2011

  • I went about my rounds that night with a spring in my step as I pushed my cart through the nocturnal neon of Moabit and Tiergarten between the Spree and Quitzowstrasse.

    Reflections and referenda 2009

  • The sheaf of poems he had been writing—the Moabit Sonnets—was scattered to the winds:

    Fearsome Days Giles MacDonogh 2011

  • Chief Brown Pool and Chief Night Cloud by the Deeps, or again had Fluvia, amber whitch she was, left her chivily crookcrook crocus bed at the bare suggestions of some prolling bywaymen from Moabit who could have abused of her, the foxrogues, there might accrue advantage to ask wher in pellmell her deceivers sinned.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • "You have been arrested seven times and served a total of thirteen months in Moabit."

    Garden of Beasts Deaver, Jeffery 2004

  • Agar, vnde et vsque hodie quidam Sarracenorum dicuntur Ismaelit�, alij Agaren� sed et quidam Moabit�, et Ammonit�, � duobus Loth filijs Moab et Amon, genitis per incestum de proprijs filiabus.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Stephenson was to his time what Mr. Borsig, whose great works at Moabit now turn out from 200 to 250 locomotives a year, is to our time.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 Various

  • The great City Prison, on a modern plan, is in Moabit, a northwestern suburb.

    In and Around Berlin Minerva Brace Norton

  • Democratic organizers were about, was due the gallant charge made by half a dozen policemen, with drawn swords in their hands and revolvers at their belts, on four inoffensive English and American journalists during the Moabit riots.

    William of Germany Stanley Shaw

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