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Examples
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But with his back to the sand-bags stayed a German Unter-offizier, enormous, sweating, apoplectic with rage, who fired two revolver shots in our direction.
The Soul of the War Philip Gibbs 1919
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"To break the ranks and run mit knives would make my old Unter-offizier Kritzer very mad indeed."
The Firm of Girdlestone Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Ach Gott! ein offizier? "she exclaimed, in consternation, born of German associations.
Under Fire Charles King 1888
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