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botanical plant nameauthor abbreviation forbotanist Wenceslas (Wenzel) Bojer (1797-1856).
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Bullock, Landolphia comorensis (Bojer) K.Schum. var. florida (Benth.)
Chapter 7 1999
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Saba comorensis (Bojer) PichonSalacia madagascariensis (Lam.)
Chapter 7 1999
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The two great Norwegian novelists of today, Knut Hamsun and Johann Bojer, were both of lowly origin.
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Strindberg and such moderns as Bojer and Nexö and Lagerlöf found their way into world literature first through German translations.
The Centennial of the University of Virginia, 1819-1921 1922
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She quoted a sentence from a Norwegian novelist, Johan Bojer, written during the First World War: “I went and sowed corn in my enemy’s field that God might exist.”
Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008
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j = the English y; thus Bojer = Boyer, Jens = Yens.
The Great Hunger Johan Bojer 1915
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