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  • He then told us that Hole-in-the-day had sent his runners to Mille Lacs urging war and that the Mille Lacs band had held a council and that "some young men" had urged war but the older heads led by Mun-o-min-e-kay-shein (Ricemaker) and others had counseled against it and that there would be no trouble.

    Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History Various

  • We sealed the welcome by a sumptuous breakfast of sausages and beer in the frontier town of Zwittau — a pleasant place, with a spacious colonnaded market-square — and finished our meal on a green bank on the outskirts of the town, with a heap of sweet blackberries, of which we had purchased a capful for six kreutzers shein.

    A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie

  • "I admire his integrity the most," shein an interview.

    Daily News & Analysis 2010

  • "I admire his integrity the most," shein an interview.

    Daily News & Analysis 2010

  • (a topic on my mind as I trigger this e-mail) "Ein malin ela vlad shein be shum choli" (we don't do a brit except on a baby who has no illness) and "shesakanat nefashot doche hakol v'efshar lamul l'achar zman, v'e efshar l'hachzir nefesh achat myisrael" (life threatening danger pushes off all and it is possible to do the brit after time, but it is not possible to return a soul ever).

    Hirhurim - Musings 2009

  • (a topic on my mind as I trigger this e-mail) "Ein malin ela vlad shein be shum choli" (we don't do a brit except on a baby who has no illness) and "shesakanat nefashot doche hakol v'efshar lamul l'achar zman, v'e efshar l'hachzir nefesh achat myisrael" (life threatening danger pushes off all and it is possible to do the brit after time, but it is not possible to return a soul ever).

    Hirhurim - Musings 2009

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