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  • On learning the catastrophe of Jena, he exclaimed, "That is the consequence of throwing generals into prison and of placing idiots at the head of the army!"] [Footnote 3: The young "vons," on the contrary, capitulated with extreme readiness, in order to return to their pleasurable habits.

    Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835

  • These were like hospital vons, and the chelloveck the chassos handed me over to had a white coat on, as he might be a hospital man.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • I stood there in the horrible bolshy bare hall and I got new vons, sniffing away there with my like very sensitive morder or sniffer.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • Pis ou est ce qu'ils vons la chercher c't'adresse de merde??

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005

  • Actually, both vons were fakes, though Stroheim was ranked above Sternberg because of the former's Hollywood martyrdom.

    Summer of Series: Ophuls, Kubrick, Ford, Leone ��� 1999

  • Dere is pad Pfeedels two hunder years ole as vell as goot vons; and dere is goot Pfeedels of pad models, vitch is made fery pad, and pad Pfeedels of de fery pest models, and peautiful made as you sall vish to see. '

    The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart

  • By "the contents of two vons" the writer evidently means the contents of the baggage of two German noblemen.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-12 Various 1898

  • "Yes, und pig vons, too," said the old trader, with a look of triumph;

    Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure George Manville Fenn 1870

  • The Yankee chaps vid their rifles 'ave gone vid the green vons, and now the colonel don't care an old button for the rest.

    The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia William Henry Thomes 1859

  • "Oh! one place mos bootiful," replied Le Rue, with enthusiasm; "de house is superb, de grounds splendeed, et le prospect magnifique, wid plenty of duck -- perhaps sometimes goose, vild vons -- in von lac near cliff immense."

    Wrecked but not Ruined 1859

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