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  • Men komt thuis, het is maart, men ontsluit het verwinterde huis, afzijn gebrek hebben webben gestrikt, meeëters verteerd, de uil door de schoorsteen de dood in gedreven de vloer vol hulpeloos dons, de boeken kalk wit bescheten, de glazen aan gruizels op het eeuwige bed een proper karkas met machtige vleugels wat heeft men gedaan vandaag?

    Gerrit Kouwenaar greenintegerblog 2008

  • The marbles we have been hitherto considering belong to the older calcareous formations of Italy, Greece, Asia Minor, and Egypt, and go down to the upper triassic and muschel-kalk limestones, and perhaps even to those of an older period.

    Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

  • Jura-kalk, at a distance of 2-1/2 hours north-east from the forest-house of Distidiul.

    Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland 1881

  • "I told you that I know much of the underlife of Cicci-kalk.

    Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982

  • Rudisten-kalk) had been entirely removed, the weight of the remaining masses, pressing unequally on the inferior beds, would, when these were soft (as the Neocomian marls), press them up into arched conditions, like those of the floors of coal-mines in what the miners called

    On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859

  • Borated lime Borassaure kalk - gattungen Boracite Boracit D.

    The Introductory Lecture of Thomas Cooper, Esq. Thomas Cooper 1812

  • "We need more people like Brian kalk who will talk to North Dakotans about Cap and Trade.

    unknown title 2009

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