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Page 160 hätten, wir von andern nichts zu beförchten; So fuhren wir ordentlich hinauf, hatte lang nicht geregnet, das Wasser wahre nicht dief, der Strohm oder Lauf des Wassers ward nicht starck, den ganzen Tag wahren wir auf der Rivier, des Nachts Spannten wir unsre Zelten auf dem Land nach beim Wasser, und Ruheten, dess Morgens früh fuhren wir wider fort.
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Devension: Defension, defence. dicklächte: dickliche, rather thick: Stalder, lech or lach for the ending lich. dief: tief, deep. dis: das or diese, this. diss: see dis.
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For the hulking dief was standing, voor den donder! standing as he emptied his magazine, and the bullets sang about Father Noah as viciously as hornets roused to anger by the stripping of a decayed thatch.
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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Negras for one of the strata of compact limestone without grains of quartz and petrifactions, which are frequently found amidst the tertiary conglomerate of Barigon and of the Castillo de Cumana; the saliferous clay of Araya would appear to them analogous to the plastic clay of Paris, * or to the clayey shelves (dief et tourtia) of secondary sandstone with lignites, containing salt-springs, in Belgium and Westphalia.
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(10 / 30 / 2008) Researchers have identified the fungus that may have been the culprit in mass dief-offs of bats in the northeastern United States during the winter of 2006-2007.
Mongabay.com News 2009
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(10 / 30 / 2008) Researchers have identified the fungus that may have been the culprit in mass dief-offs of bats in the northeastern United States during the winter of 2006-2007.
Mongabay.com News 2009
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Het groepje bestaat uit een politieagent, een professionele dief, een student wiskunde, een psycholoog, een architect en een autistische volwassene.
unknown title 2009
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(10 / 30 / 2008) Researchers have identified the fungus that may have been the culprit in mass dief-offs of bats in the northeastern United States during the winter of 2006-2007.
Mongabay.com News 2009
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(10 / 30 / 2008) Researchers have identified the fungus that may have been the culprit in mass dief-offs of bats in the northeastern United States during the winter of 2006-2007.
Mongabay.com News 2009
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(10 / 30 / 2008) Researchers have identified the fungus that may have been the culprit in mass dief-offs of bats in the northeastern United States during the winter of 2006-2007.
Mongabay.com News 2009
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