Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Lake
- Austrian crown prince, heir to Francis Joseph I, who was found dead with his mistress in Mayerling, his hunting lodge near Vienna. The event spawned numerous rumors and remains a mystery, although it was officially declared a double suicide.
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According to such a view, tautologies are synonymous, even though (since Rudolf presumably has some tautological beliefs and lacks others) sentences resulting from embedding tautologies under ˜Rudolf believes that ¦™ are not.
Compositionality Szabó, Zoltán Gendler 2007
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The name Rudolf came from the author's young daughter.
WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2011
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It's owned by Rudolf and Josefine and has been in Rudolf's family since 1780, though he claims people have been farming at Pristingerhof since 1396.
Family ski: never say never in South Tyrol Martin Love 2010
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I've just finished Old Soldiers which will be on here next week but then selected Paul Bailey's latest book Uncle Rudolf from the pile and am already impressed by the number of literary luminaries who sing his praises, Beryl Bainbridge, Ali Smith, Penelope Lively and Stevie Davies to name a few.
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I've just finished Old Soldiers which will be on here next week but then selected Paul Bailey's latest book Uncle Rudolf from the pile and am already impressed by the number of literary luminaries who sing his praises, Beryl Bainbridge, Ali Smith, Penelope Lively and Stevie Davies to name a few.
Paul Bailey 2007
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I've just finished Old Soldiers which will be on here next week but then selected Paul Bailey's latest book Uncle Rudolf from the pile and am already impressed by the number of literary luminaries who sing his praises, Beryl Bainbridge, Ali Smith, Penelope Lively and Stevie Davies to name a few.
Paul Bailey 2007
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Writing to a friend of Fallada – real name Rudolf Ditzen – who had submitted a specimen translation, a Putnam publishing director wrote: I have the distinct impression that our poor author, after all his tribulations, had lost his inspiration.
Global bestseller was turned down 60 years ago by British publisher 2011
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So rich had life been along the ancient lakeshore that animals evolved rapidly, producing an almost profligate display of size and form: four species of giraffe, nine different pigs, and twenty-four types of antelopes had all called Rudolf home.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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So rich had life been along the ancient lakeshore that animals evolved rapidly, producing an almost profligate display of size and form: four species of giraffe, nine different pigs, and twenty-four types of antelopes had all called Rudolf home.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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He was hardly gone when 'my friend Herr Schmidt' -- alias Rudolf
Rupert of Hentzau Anthony Hope 1898
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