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  • The settlement was named after the immigrant ship's captain Hahn ( "dorf" is a German word for village) and was a vital stopover for stage coaches in the 19th century.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2009

  • Or put “dorf” at the end as they do in Austria, so they sound silly. jack lecou Says:

    Matthew Yglesias » More on Charles Murray 2010

  • In the Christmas parades in each town (dorf) Samichlaus still comes along with Schmutzli, and lots of big cow bells and drums, when night has fallen.

    December 2008 2008

  • In the Christmas parades in each town (dorf) Samichlaus still comes along with Schmutzli, and lots of big cow bells and drums, when night has fallen.

    Laser eyes 2008

  • “Mageyfe in dorf” (An Epidemic in the Village), “A shed in feld” (A Demon in the Field), “Der letster veg” (The Last Road).

    Rokhl H��ring Korn. 2009

  • A larger city, like Lemberg or Czernowitz, was called a shtot (Yiddish: שטאָט); a smaller village was called a dorf (Yiddish: דאָרף).

    Maureen Dowd picks up "a vibe so weird and jittery, so at odds with the early thrilling, fairy dust feel of the Obama revolution." Ann Althouse 2008

  • I follow his pony tail out the door and through innumerable villages ending in - dorf and smelling like granny apples.

    Frankly 2007

  • In October, the 28th Bomb Group, a B-29 unit stationed at Grand Island Army Air Field, Nebraska, deployed to Elmen-dorf, Alaska, for six months temporary duty (TDY) training in arctic operations.

    Strategic Air Command: People Aircraft and Missiles 2nd Edition Polmar, Norman & Laur, Timothy 1990

  • ; ', "I say we must name Arentol as Lord Mayor -, now!" roared the florid-faced, bulky merchant Phil-dorf Gelbbeek.

    Night Arrant Gygax, Gary 1987

  • They had not spoken since the days at Kummers-dorf, at the old Raketenflugplatz.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

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