Weissnichtwo

Democritus (who was uncanonized only because the Holy See was still wavering, an anomalous body, in _Weissnichtwo_, and who existed forty days on the mere sight of bread and honey) had been regaled with the piquant delicacies of Lowell's picture of a Critic, he might have continued unto this present.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Teufelsdröckh could not have uttered his extraordinary night thoughts above the town of Weissnichtwo; "Prometheus Bound" would have been impossible.

Journeys to Bagdad 1906

For this end the device of biography is adopted, and we see the meaning of all that apparent byplay of the six paper bags, and of the Weissnichtwo allusions which drop as puzzling fragments into Book

Among Famous Books John Kelman 1896

The very title is provoking, and not less so is the explanation of it -- the pretended discovery of a German volume upon "Clothes, their origin and influence," published by Stillschweigen and Co., of Weissnichtwo, and written by

Among Famous Books John Kelman 1896

X. appears from Weissnichtwo with a bevy of carpet bags and some heavy cheque books.

Rebuilding Britain A Survey Of Problems Of Reconstruction After The World War Alfred Hopkinson 1895

Zenda -- that land of irresponsible adventure which lies seemingly between the Forest of Arden and the unexplored empire of Weissnichtwo -- this historian, after regaling us with brisk and brilliant chronicles of that strange country and of the adjacent territory, apparently wearied of these pleasant inventions of his and wisht to come to a closer grapple with the realities of life and character.

Inquiries and Opinions Brander Matthews 1890

Weissnichtwo professor of _Sartor Resartus_, but are regarded with some awe by the good people of Inistiogue.

Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) William Henry Hurlbert 1861

At the same time, who can avoid smiling at the earnestness and Boeotian simplicity (if indeed there be not an underhand satire in it), with which that 'Incident' is here brought forward; and, in the Professor's ambiguous way, as clearly perhaps as he durst in Weissnichtwo, recommended to imitation!

Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

Had we not known with what 'little wisdom' the world is governed; and how, in Germany as elsewhere, the ninety-and-nine Public Men can for most part be but mute train-bearers to the hundredth, perhaps but stalking-horses and willing or unwilling dupes, -- it might have seemed wonderful how Herr Heuschrecke should be named a Rath, or Councillor, and Counsellor, even in Weissnichtwo.

Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

To us it appeared, after repeated trial, that in Weissnichtwo, from the archives or memories of the best-informed classes, no Biography of Teufelsdröckh was to be gathered; not so much as a false one.

Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838