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  • Mr. Ammann grew up in a small farming community in the Toggenburg valley, an hour northeast of Zurich, and first began skiing because there was little else to do.

    Four Leaps Into the Unknown Julia Hancock 2010

  • In fact, Toggenburg goats were developed especially for cheesemaking, with an especially high lipase milk that tastes goaty even when just drawn.

    Karl Popper, metabolic advantage and the C57BL/6 mouse | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007

  • Bazarov was very fond of women and of feminine beauty, but love in the ideal, or as he called it romantic, sense, he described as idiocy, unpardonable folly; he regarded chivalrous feelings as a kind of deformity or disease, and had more than once expressed his amazement that Toggenburg and all the minnesingers and troubadours had not been shut up in a lunatic asylum.

    Fathers and Sons 2003

  • Civil war between Zurich and some of the neighboring cantons over the succession to the domains of the count of Toggenburg.

    2. The Swiss Confederation 2001

  • Wallenstatt, cross into the valley of the Toggenburg, and so make your way northward and eastward around the base of the mountains back to the starting-point, you will have passed only through the territory of St. Gall.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 Various

  • In order to reach the Toggenburg, they said, I must go over the Krätzernwald.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 Various

  • Bluebeard and Toggenburg, Richard Coeur-de-Lion -- what are these bloody tyrants for us of to-day?

    Maxim Gorki Hans Ostwald

  • Toggenburg, Saanen, Guggisberger, and Anglo-Nubian breeds, with the grades of each breed, and native goats.

    The Jewel City Ben Macomber

  • It was impossible to penetrate much farther without better weather; but I decided, while enjoying my trout, to make another trial, -- to take the road to Urnäsch, and thence pass westward into the renowned valley of the Toggenburg.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 Various

  • Bazarov had a great love for women and for feminine beauty; but love in the ideal, or, as he expressed it, romantic sense, he called lunacy, unpardonable imbecility; he regarded chivalrous sentiments as something of the nature of deformity or disease, and had more than once expressed his wonder that Toggenburg and all the minnesingers and troubadours had not been put into a lunatic asylum.

    Chapter XVII 1917

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