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  • The topic that he had listed was Über die Hypothesen welche der Geometrie zu grunde liegen “On the Hypotheses Which Lie at the Foundations of Geometry”.

    Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

  • The topic that he had listed was Über die Hypothesen welche der Geometrie zu grunde liegen “On the Hypotheses Which Lie at the Foundations of Geometry”.

    Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

  • The topic that he had listed was Über die Hypothesen welche der Geometrie zu grunde liegen “On the Hypotheses Which Lie at the Foundations of Geometry”.

    Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

  • Þa þe habbeð doules werc idon. ⁊ þer inne bo ifunde. hi sculen faren forð mid him in to helle grunde.

    Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

  • Hie sulle fare forð mid hem in {} to helle grunde.

    Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

  • [Ȝ] ut hí beoð á wurse stede. on ðeré helle grunde.

    Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

  • On me hit is wel isene. vor riȝte cunde ich am so kene. vor {} þi ich am loþ smale foȝle. þat floþ bi grunde an bi þuuele.

    Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

  • That is why comedy, though sorely tempted, had to be loyally silent; for the art of the dramatic poet knows no patriotism; recognizes no obligation but truth to natural history; cares not whether Germany or England perish; is ready to cry with Brynhild, "Lass'uns verderben, lachend zu grunde geh'n" sooner than deceive or be deceived; and thus becomes in time of war a greater military danger than poison, steel, or trinitrotoluene.

    Heartbreak House George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • Sinc eáðe mäg, gold on grunde, gumena cynnes gehwone ofer-higian, hýde se þe wylle!

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • (Þryðo) him wälbende weotode tealde hand-gewriðene, 1937. ge-tenge, adj., _attached to, lying on_: w.dat. gold ... grunde ge-tenge,

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

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