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  • On the south the heights sink away into a wider valley, the Mühl-thal, along which runs the road to Weimar; and on this side too their wooded brows are broken by gulleys, up one of which runs a winding track known as the Schnecke or Snail.

    The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2) John Holland Rose 1898

  • The German word for a snail, not a slug, is Schnecke.

    Archive 2007-06-01 C N Heidelberg 2007

  • I walk with a couple of classmates and during discussions about slugs heard them refer to the critters as Schnecke now and again though generally we are just using English.

    Archive 2007-06-01 C N Heidelberg 2007

  • Once again, the German word for snail, Schnecke is translated to French as limace.

    Archive 2006-05-01 AYDIN 2006

  • To German Promt: 2. Vergessen Sie nicht, ein Bild der Baby-Schnecke vor den Sonne-Sätzen hinter der Kalkstein-Spitze zu nehmen.

    Archive 2006-05-01 AYDIN 2006

  • The duke was posted with the main body not far from Weimar, the Saxons at the Schnecke on the road between Weimar and Jena, the prince of Hohenlohe at Jena.

    Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835

  • A similar fate befell the unfortunate Saxons at the Schnecke and the duke of Brunswick at Auerstädt.

    Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835

  • Entzifferung der Mayahandschriften III, Schildkröte und Schnecke in der

    Representation of Deities of the Maya Manuscripts Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. 4, No. 1 Paul Schellhas

  • One problem is Google’s translation of "Baby-Schnecke" to French as "la limace de bébé", which means "baby’s slug".

    Archive 2006-05-01 AYDIN 2006

  • On the French right, St. Hilaire’s division was to try consequences once more with Holtzendorff’s survivors, while on the left Augereau got to grips with the Saxons in the Schnecke, a narrow and winding pass through which ran the main Weimar-Jena highway.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

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