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  • From the thick throat of the commander of the Patna came a low rumble, on which the sound of the word schwein fluttered high and low like a capricious feather in a faint stir of air.

    Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1890

  • But, my theory gets shot to hell by the king of flop. john aka schwein at March 3, 2009 9: 43 AM

    Moonbattery 2009

  • Why should the Allied "schwein" fly so low, yet do no harm where once they had wrecked things only a few days before?

    Our Pilots in the Air William Perry Brown 1885

  • The Germans squeeled like schwein as the preliminary bombardment cut a swathe through their ranks.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Cromwell MkI 2008

  • The Germans squeeled like schwein as the preliminary bombardment cut a swathe through their ranks.

    Camp Cromwell 07/10/08 Cromwell MkI 2008

  • Teuton, this big chap let the world at large know what would happen on the great "Day"; when the whole "schwein-hund" Englander nation would, at long last, be knocked sky-high and to everlasting flinders by the ineffable and invincible Army of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

    A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa Frederick Cornell

  • "As sheur as I standing here am, dot schwein I'm going to kill!"'

    Ted Strong's Motor Car Edward C. Taylor

  • "He has them, the hound," said Grosman, "we had arranged, schwein - hund," he yelled again, "it was to have been to-morrow night and you have stolen them from me; where have you buried them?"

    A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa Frederick Cornell

  • With all respect, no! Brietmann, you schwein-hund! ... never have I seen such a dummkopf! ...

    A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa Frederick Cornell

  • Will say this for him though, he was a Hun all right, and he died cussing us all, Johnny Bull, Uncle Sam, as 'Schwein, schwein!'

    Our Pilots in the Air William Perry Brown 1885

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