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  • When he dies with only one line of the poem left to complete, in a death scene that suspiciously echoes his youthful explorations of "playful death," and when he does so shortly after having dropped the name Zembla and having written in the next couplet "Man's life as commentary to abstruse unfinished poem.

    Reading Nabokov Boyd, Brian 1992

  • Kinbote, and his exotic history as "King Charles the Beloved," the deposed and exiled ruler of an exotic "northern land" called Zembla and the real target of the bullet that killed his neighbor and colleague, Shade.

    BrothersJudd Blog 2010

  • Zembla, that is to say, the New Land; and then he came aboord himselfe with his skiffe he told me the like ... he made me also certaine demonstrations of the way to the Ob. I gave him a steele glasse, two pewter spoons, and a paire of veluet sheathed knives; and then he seemed somewhat the more willing to tary and shewed me as much as he knew for our purpose; he also gave me 17 wild geese ....

    The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

  • This last clip is from the 9 / 11 episode of the dutch program 'Zembla' in which a spokesperson for Convar confirms their previous statements about insider trading:

    911Blogger.com - Paying Attention to 9/11 Related Alternative News 2008

  • The Buds are in some places allready out, but the wind now rushing from 'Nova Zembla, or the Lord knows where' will damp their ardor.

    Letter 80 2009

  • A couple of weeks later, during the parliamentary spring break, the television program Zembla aired a documentary that prominently featured the fact that I had lied on my refugee application.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • A couple of weeks later, during the parliamentary spring break, the television program Zembla aired a documentary that prominently featured the fact that I had lied on my refugee application.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • A freelance writer and researcher, Andrew's features and reviews have appeared in The Spectator, Foundation: the international review of science fiction, Zembla, Time Out and The Oxford Companion to English Literature.

    MIND MELD: What Purpose Does Short Fiction Serve? 2008

  • Zembla zond afgelopen weekend een documentaire uit over gameverslaving.

    I got tagged nathreee 2008

  • A couple of weeks later, during the parliamentary spring break, the television program Zembla aired a documentary that prominently featured the fact that I had lied on my refugee application.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

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