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  • This may be so, but there is a German confectioner in Hampstead called Zwanziger, and there are Parisians named Vingtain.

    The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

  • Zwanziger said on a recent conference call with investors that the company is offsetting the spending by moving manufacturing to China, adding, "I think it's a fair assumption that (acquisitions) will stay at the kind of pace we've seen recently."

    Inverness to Buy British Firm 2007

  • Earlier on, in comparing her with Van der Linden and the Zwanziger woman, I have lessened her caliginosity as compared with that of the Leyden poisoner, giving her credit for one less death than her Dutch sister in crime.

    She Stands Accused 1935

  • She hated the people who came to see her parents, the customers who came into the shop, the loafers who gathered about the window, the tall lanky Zwanziger, the books and the magazines.

    Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

  • Zwanziger had taken refuge at the top of the ladder; he was howling.

    Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

  • Zwanziger, the clerk, had married the widow of a cheese merchant, and was running a shop of his own on the Regensburg Chaussee.

    Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

  • Jason Philip, who was just then handing some books up the ladder to Zwanziger, became so gruff that one might have thought she had accused him of the theft.

    Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

  • Jason Philip laughed merrily, and Zwanziger grinned.

    Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

  • In giving his testimony as an eyewitness, Zwanziger displayed boastful hardiness in his narration of details.

    Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

  • Zwanziger, the freckled shop-assistant, was busy unpacking books.

    Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

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