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  • Ladies had long ceased looking impatiently at their watches, and were perhaps busy with their thoughts, as I was, when from the "mittel" door Court-preacher Frommel entered, his long white hair thrown back, and crossed through the transverse aisle to the robing-room opposite.

    In and Around Berlin Minerva Brace Norton

  • Who would have thought a maverick as extreme and as mittel-European as Herzog could make a hilariously entertaining American movie without once compromising his vision?

    Werner Herzog, a movie-making genius of performance art Jonathan Jones 2010

  • Anyway I could afford a bit of Rothian mittel-European melancholy that was for sure, except that Rebellion is for the first two thirds at least Joseph Roth with his laughing hat on.

    Rebellion 2008

  • Anyway I could afford a bit of Rothian mittel-European melancholy that was for sure, except that Rebellion is for the first two thirds at least Joseph Roth with his laughing hat on.

    Rebellion 2008

  • When challenged he would say only this -- in a thick mittel-European accent: "Can you tell me the way to Grods?"

    The Guardian Picks The 5 Best Lines From The Year's Best Books The Guardian 2010

  • Note 48: Vnd der mittel alter, da er das venster hat gemachet, da wir vnsern herren sehen ...

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

  • When challenged he would say only this -- in a thick mittel-European accent: "Can you tell me the way to Grods?"

    The Guardian Picks The 5 Best Lines From The Year's Best Books The Guardian 2010

  • It suddenly needed to be someone who exuded a definitive sense of time and place, atmosphere and emotion and I felt a little smattering of autumnal mittel European melancholy was called for.

    48 entries from October 2007 2007

  • The writers become increasingly obscure as my Nineteenth Century Rehab post-Booker therapy takes me deeper and deeper into unknown but very exciting mittel European book territory.

    Adalbert Stifter 2007

  • The writers become increasingly obscure as my Nineteenth Century Rehab post-Booker therapy takes me deeper and deeper into unknown but very exciting mittel European book territory.

    Adalbert Stifter 2007

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