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  • He came promptly upon two objects which he would willingly have shunned: a 'denkmal' of the Franco-German war, not so furiously bad as most German monuments, but antipathetic and uninteresting, as all patriotic monuments are; and a woman-and-dog team.

    Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

  • a 'denkmal' of the Franco-German war, not so furiously bad as most German monuments, but antipathetic and uninteresting, as all patriotic monuments are; and a woman-and-dog team.

    Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 3 William Dean Howells 1878

  • a 'denkmal' of the Franco-German war, not so furiously bad as most German monuments, but antipathetic and uninteresting, as all patriotic monuments are; and a woman-and-dog team.

    Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

  • Defeated and humiliated France triumphs in the badness of that foolish denkmal (one of the worst in all denkmal-ridden Germany), and the memory of the singer whom the Hohenzollern family pride forbids honor in his native place, is immortal in its presence.

    Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 3 William Dean Howells 1878

  • Dusseldorf is not content with the denkmal of the Kaiser on horseback, with the two Victories for grooms; there is a second, which the Marches found when they strolled out again late in the afternoon.

    Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 3 William Dean Howells 1878

  • It is in the French taste, and is so far a monument to the continuance in one sort of that French supremacy, of which in another sort another denkmal celebrates the overthrow.

    Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

  • "Well, we have got no denkmal, either," said his wife, meaning the national monument to the German reconquest of the Rhine, which they had just passed, "and that is something in our favor."

    Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

  • It is in the French taste, and is so far a monument to the continuance in one sort of that French supremacy, of which in another sort another denkmal celebrates the overthrow.

    Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 3 William Dean Howells 1878

  • Dusseldorf is not content with the denkmal of the Kaiser on horseback, with the two Victories for grooms; there is a second, which the Marches found when they strolled out again late in the afternoon.

    Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

  • "The denkmal at Coblenz was so near that the bronze Emperor almost rode aboard the boat."

    Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

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