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Gregor's size, too, makes a difference, and brings us back to ungeheuer.
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Incidentally, Ungeziefer means “vermin,” not “insect,” which is either Insekt or Kerbtier in German; and while the adjective ungeheuer means “enormous,” the noun Ungeheuer means “monster.”
The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories Franz Kafka 2000
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[48] “Geht und schaut, es geht ungehuer (ungeheuer).”
Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel Froebel, Friedrich, 1782-1852 1889
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Cf.ll. 2121, 2414, for similar use of unheóru = ungeheuer. l.
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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Cf.ll. 2121, 2414, for similar use of unhēoru = ungeheuer. l.
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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In view of their mad fury, so fatal to their benefactors, one is tempted to exclaim: _Unglaube du bist nicht so viel ein ungeheuer als aberglaube du!
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[48] _ "Geht und schaut, es geht ungehür (ungeheuer)."
Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel $c translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore. Friedrich Fr��bel 1817
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` Der Neffe als Onkel 'in a tragic sense -- ungeheuer! "
Middlemarch 1871
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` Der Neffe als Onkel 'in a tragic sense -- ungeheuer! "
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'Der Neffe als Onkel' in a tragic sense -- ungeheuer! "
Middlemarch George Eliot 1849
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