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Again, depending on context: 1. neu einfassen 2. umsetzen 3. neu fassen 4. neu stellen 5. zurückstellen 6. einrichten 7. wieder einrenken 8. neu setzen 9. rücksetzen
Hillary’s Mexico Visit Blunders Ignored by Old Media - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState 2009
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Also yu cud fassen som fat yarn loops on one end of it.
Just doing my part. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Plz to fassen ur CHRG or 50s style bavving cap or wutebber uvver fing u use to purrtektify ur braynes.
… I want my - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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A gud an EZ toy is to take emptee toylit-papur rolls an cut dem in haff an den pinsch one end shut an fassen wif dukky taep, an den put a littul dry rice inside an pinsch teh uther en shut an fassen it.
Just doing my part. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Hölderlin's aesthetic can thus be characterized as an ongoing attempt to fuse poetry and critique — to "grasp" (fassen) and articulate the otherness of his own voice in a provisional "text" (Fassung), and thus to achieve an instance of subjective "composure" (Fassung) for which Rousseau's repose had provided the archetype.
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Sich zu fassen, zu ermannen, was auch drohend überrascht.
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The words of one of Schumann's songs was borne to them on Mary Dyce's passionate soprano, _Ich kann's nicht fassen, nicht glauben!
The Child of Pleasure Gabriele D'Annunzio 1900
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Werken den _Dichter_ zuerst aufzusuchen, _seinem Herzen_ zu begegnen ... war es mir unertraglich, dasz der Poet sich hier gar nirgends fassen liesz und mir nirgends Rede stehen wollte.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886
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Mebbe he fin 'it all was close up, an' de door it was fassen tight.
The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems William Henry Drummond 1880
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'You see how big I is, en how much strenk w'at I got, en how tough my foots is,' sezee; 'well dish yer Mr. Man, he kin take'n take me en hitch me up in he buggy, en make me haul' im all 'roun', en den he kin take'n fassen me ter de plow en make me break up all his new groun ',' sezee.
Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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