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  • Lamb's quarters were called 'melde' in Saxon, which is thought to be the root of such place names as Milden and Melbourn Cambridgeshire.

    languagehat.com: MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB'S-QUARTERS. 2005

  • Det er et initiativ, hvor avisens læsere kan melde sig til et kursus i et eller andet emne, og ...

    Newspapers find a new way to monetize their journalists » Nieman Journalism Lab 2009

  • Desværre må jeg melde fra da jeg ikke kan ordne transporten til hovedstaden :- Glæder mig til et referat og tak for indbydelsen.

    Allan Jenkins' Desirable Roasted Coffee 2006

  • In the Russian translation that I guess is the only one and thus the canon, most German and Hungarian passages are left intact, too "Ich melde gehorsam, Herr Oberst, ich bin besoffen!" but some extraordinary passages are rendered phonetically via cyrillics.

    languagehat.com: TRANSLATING SCHWEIK. 2005

  • Soon the sunny section was a melde with men flying through the air as they dived from the higher tiers to revenge themselves upon enemies seated below.

    Mexico Michener, James 1992

  • Before the remainder could extricate themselves from the melde and make a fair start, Drake and Frobisher had obtained a full fifty yards 'lead; and by the time their pursuers had reached the main street, the fugitives were more than half-way to the palace.

    A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas Harry Collingwood 1886

  • For many good reasons; including dust and smoke, and that what attention he dared distract from his commanding officer was pretty well absorbed by keeping his hard-mouthed troop-horse in hand, under pain of execration by his neighbors in the melde.

    Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

  • 'And presenting yourself in humble guise before your colonel, to say, "_Ich melde mich gehorsamst_."'

    Lord Kilgobbin Charles James Lever 1839

  • And, accordingly, in a letter which I received from him after his return to Königsberg, dated November 14, 1842, he says, -- 'In reference to our conversation at Collingwood, I _announce_ to you (_melde_ ich Ihnen) that Uranus is not forgotten.'

    A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

  • Insofern melde ich hier mal mein ernsthaftes Interesse an deiner Twitter-'Freundschaft 'an. hussong am 05.04.2009 23: 09: Interessanter Ansatz.

    Oliver Gassner: Digitale Tage 2010

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