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from The Century Dictionary.
- Noting a class of small yachts which originated in Germany, and which are restricted in relation to points in construction and sail area.
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Die indruk is geskep dat die SAUK besig is om 'n onkritiese kanaal vir die klakkelose herhaling van ANC propaganda te word sonder om propagandistiese bewerings te kontroleer of die Nasionale Party se reaksie ook op sy nuusbulletins te dra.
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Note 37: Heese, Groep sonder grense (Robertson trans.), 54. back
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Note 14: Heese, Groepe sonder Grense (Robertson trans), 34; dv&P, 1981, 132. back
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Note 24: Heese, Groep sonder grense (Robertson trans.), 55. back
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Note 29: On the incorporation of mixed-race children into "white" colonial society, see Heese, Groupe sonder grense.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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For documentation of settler men having illegitimate children with slaves, free blacks, and mixed-race women, see H.F. Heese, Groep sonder grense. back
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Ek mag dit ook net noem dat die pistool het nie dieselfe demoraliserende uitwerking as wat 'n masjiengeweer het nie; die klank is nie dieselfde nie en ek het gehoop dat dit sou die uitwerking hê om die kinders weg te dryf sodat ek net kon uitkom sonder enige bloedvergieting.
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005
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Hierdie mense is toe herhaaldelik gewaarsku om uit die plafon te klim, maar sonder enige reaksie.
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005
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Dosyne knuppel stormlope was toe reeds uitgevoer, sonder dat dit enige skynbare blywende uitwerking op die oproermakers gehad het. 'n Hele aantal knuppels was toe alreeds stukkend geslaan op die oproermakers.
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005
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Who, I say, does not perceive that this is the chief reason why so many sectaries teach contradictory opinions as Divine documents, and support their contentions with numerous Scriptural texts, till it has passed in Belgium into a proverb, geen ketter sonder letter — no heretic without a text?
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He defines the word “sonder” as “the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed.”
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bitha4 commented on the word sonder
n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk. www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com
November 29, 2012
bilby commented on the word sonder
They must not cost to build more than $1,440 in Germany or more than $2,400 in America, including two suits of sails.
November 29, 2012
terenceponce commented on the word sonder
sonder
n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.
This came from a blog called The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.
June 29, 2013