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Examples
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And in German der taube Mann meant “the Deaf Man.”
Eight Black Horses Ed McBain 1985
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In a field was a wrecked aeroplane, a white and yellow _taube_, with its right wing reaching into the air, looking like some gigantic, wounded bird.
Paris War Days Diary of an American Charles Inman Barnard
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Even the natives in the E.L.C. (Egyptian Labour Corps) began to grow accustomed to these raids and steadily resisted their impulse to dash back along the line when a taube was sighted.
The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919 S. J. Wilson
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They had been set on fire by four bombs from a German taube, and a huge, thick volume of black smoke was ascending 200 feet into the air.
The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 Various
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As the _taube_ passed over the Pépinière barracks, and the Place de l'Opéra, at an altitude of perhaps twelve hundred meters, some soldiers fired at it with their rifles, but without effect.
Paris War Days Diary of an American Charles Inman Barnard
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"I am now devoting myself to the taube," he announced.
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Finally the taube tired of manoeuvering, would disappear.
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Just above us is hanging a German _taube_, obviously watching us and the automobile which we had left below in the road, while the British huge anti-aircraft guns near by are feeling for it, shot after shot.
With Our Soldiers in France Sherwood Eddy 1917
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I might as well have tried to interrupt the advance of a German taube as to interfere with any of Mlle. Jacquier's orthodoxies.
The Living Present Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902
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Here a bomb from a taube intended for the Prince hit and killed him instantly.
The Living Present Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902
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