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Tell her Trenck is a prisoner, and hopes only in her! '
Frederick the Great and His Family Chapman Coleman 1843
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Consent to become Queen of Denmark, and on the day in which you pass the boundary of Prussia and enter your own realm as queen, on that day I will recall Trenck to Berlin, and all shall be forgotten.
Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends 1843
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Should I continue to exist, should identity go with me, and should I know what I was then, when I was called Trenck; when that combination of particles which Nature commanded should compose this body shall be decomposed, scattered, or in other bodies united; when I have no muscles to act, no brain to think, no retina on which pictures can mechanically be painted, my eyes wasted, and no tongue remaining to pronounce the
The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2 Friedrich Trenck 1760
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It was likewise very damp, and, to crown all, the name of 'Trenck' had been printed in red bricks on the wall, above a tomb whose place was indicated by a death's head.
The True Story Book Andrew Lang 1878
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The Croats were transformed from roving bands of freebooters, in the manner of the infamous Baron von Trenck, into an organized establishment of regiments under the direction of Prince Joseph Saxe-Hildburghausen: two Warasdiner regiments, four of Carlstadter, and three of Slavonians.
Archive 2008-01-01 Der Alte Fritz 2008
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I made a campaign or two with the Pandours under Austrian Trenck.
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_O'Grady Gahagan_; and that much of his reading had been confined to the pleasant rambles of Gulliver and the doughty deeds of Trenck and
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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I might, indeed, write you a manuel des prisons, and, like Trenck or Latude, by a vain display of ingenuity, deprive some future victim of a resource.
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I might, indeed, write you a manuel des prisons, and, like Trenck or Latude, by a vain display of ingenuity, deprive some future victim of a resource.
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Baron would have pecked him, the said warder, from the topmost battlement into the bottommost ditch, -- a descent of peril, and one which "Ludwig the Leaper," or the illustrious Trenck himself, might well have shrunk from encountering.
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