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I can't believe that my week began with subjecting myself to the pornographic unfunny Bruno (es ist schrecklich) to ending with the announcement of Walter Cronkite's death.
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Jeder Engel ist schrecklich, as the Elegies inform us The dogs I got from the Thurn und Taxis coat of arms, and they ended up being a major element of the plot.
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Jeder Engel ist schrecklich, as the Elegies inform us The dogs I got from the Thurn und Taxis coat of arms, and they ended up being a major element of the plot.
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Heidelbergerin: Slightly less schrecklich skip to main
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I can't remember a word, but according to Margot I babbled something about "unlioersehbarer Schaden, schrecklich, entsetzlich, nie zu ersetzen" * [* Incalculable loss, terrible, awful, irreplaceable.] and much more.
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Aber when she runs with this poor kerl away from her family, and her first husband's family is so schrecklich mad that they try by law to take from her her boy and her money, because she has her highborn family disgraced, you see?
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* Mit nichten: sondern Er zuernet schrecklich, beides ueber angeborne und wirkliche Suenden, und will sie aus gerechtem Urtheil zeitlich und ewig strafen, wie Er gesprochen hat: Verflucht sei jedermann, der nicht bleibet in allem dem, das geschrieben stehet im Buch des
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Mit nichten: sondern Er zuernet schrecklich, beides ueber angeborne und wirkliche Suenden, und will sie aus gerechtem Urtheil zeitlich und ewig strafen, wie Er gesprochen hat: Verflucht sei jedermann, der nicht bleibet in allem dem, das geschrieben stehet im Buch des Gesetzes, dass er's thue.
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The cultivated critics, and the refined persons who have schrecklich viel gelesen, are not competent to estimate the debt we owe to Byron.
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Some burst out with one thing, some another; the German nurse put up her hands and said, "Oh, Schade! oh, schrecklich!"
ramyeon commented on the word schrecklich
According to my German teacher: absolutely terrifying, horrible, so fear-inducing as to cause permanent trauma.
November 25, 2010