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The word "Onkel" he detested as foreign, because it was derived from "avunculus" and
The Story of My Life Ebers, Georg, 1837-1898 1892
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On the day that my "Onkel" Wolfgang showed up in London, I was a year out of boarding school and working a seemingly dead-end desk job processing orders for an oil company.
Toledo Newspaper 2009
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From his grandfather's legends he has long known that Onkel Konstantin was hairless by twenty.
A Bear Hunt in Riga Josef K. Strosche 2011
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The mailman's papa probably crooned these god-awful songs while he bloodied his knuckles on Onkel Konstantin's perishing body.
A Bear Hunt in Riga Josef K. Strosche 2011
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Of course, that makes his dad about Onkel Konstantin's age, so we know he was in the war.
A Bear Hunt in Riga Josef K. Strosche 2011
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For all he knows, he was Onkel Konstantin, his namesake after all.
A Bear Hunt in Riga Josef K. Strosche 2011
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Onkel Heinrich ist nicht in jedem der letztjährigen Fotos.
Abendessen bei McDonalds Larry Strattner 2011
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He knows Onkel Konstantin wasn't an officer, but maybe he spent time here.
A Bear Hunt in Riga Josef K. Strosche 2011
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And here, Secretary Bodman. you and your staff and all those good folks at the White House can play a role which, in the old days, would have been attributed in the European parlance of another time as help from the "Onkel aus Amerika."
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Ein kleines Mädchen öffnet: "Wer bist Du denn, Onkel?"
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