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David fantasizes that she will leave her husband and return to him and so has bought and furnished a house in a neighboring town under the name William Neumeister.
Psychos, Obsessives And Other Loons Mary Horlock 2011
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In the shoemaker's trade there was a sharp distinction between the Neumeister, who made new shoes, the cobbler, and the slipper maker.
The Guilds 2007
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In the shoemaker's trade there was a sharp distinction between the Neumeister, who made new shoes, the cobbler, and the slipper maker.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Neumeister [281] says that the wings are crossed over the tail, and do not reach to its extremity.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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_ -- I know this bird only from the figures and description given by the accurate Neumeister, one of the few writers on pigeons who, as I have found, may be always trusted.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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The degree of downward curvature of the distal half of the lower jaw also differs to an extraordinary degree in some breeds, as may be seen in the drawings (fig. A) of the rock-pigeon, (B) of the short-faced tumbler, and (C) of the Bagadotten carrier of Neumeister.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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The Hinkel or Florentiner-Taube of Neumeister (Table XIII., fig. 1) agrees with the above description in all the specified characters (for the beak is not mentioned), except that Neumeister expressly says that the neck is short, whereas in my Scanderoon it was remarkably long and bowed; so that the Hinkel forms a well-marked variety.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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I have been assured by three fanciers that they have seen twelve in Scanderoons; but as Neumeister asserts that in the allied Florence Runt the middle flight-feather is often double, the number twelve may have been caused by two of the ten primaries having each two shafts to a single feather.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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Bagadotten carrier (of Neumeister), all drawn of the natural size and viewed laterally.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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Neumeister figures the great Florence Runt of a blue colour with black bars.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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