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Translation: Ortelsburg and Gilgenburg [two places in East Prussia] with victory for Hindenburg -- that makes three "Burgs" in all.
Gems (?) of German Thought William Archer 1890
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Of course, the reality is that whatever is causing premox could simply take longer to affect these dry white wines that have been bottled with higher doses of SO2, and I may have the same problems down the road with these wines that I had with white Burgs and wines from the Graves.
Natural wines, premox, chenin blanc, 07 Port and Rhone – John Gilman | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009
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Then I saw that only one Cali and one Oregon pinot were included and 2 low end Burgs among 15 or so of the best FL pinots from one very, very good vintage.
Blind Tasting of Finger Lakes Pinot Noir Reveals Progress, Challenges 2009
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Peter Burgs teeth look like they are bunching together in his mouth to keep body warmth.
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I ended up re-classifying crimes that were classed as Crim Damage to Burgs and a whole host of other offences.
Humbug « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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Caithness_, Laing ascribes a much greater antiquity to the _Burgs_, pp. 60-61.
Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray
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` Ah-ha, 'says they, ` so Jim Blausser is claiming that Gopher Prairie is as good a place to live in as London and Rome and -- and all the rest of the Big Burgs, is he?
Main Street 1920
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'Ah-ha,' says they, 'so Jim Blausser is claiming that Gopher Prairie is as good a place to live in as London and Rome and -- and all the rest of the Big Burgs, is he?
Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918
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"Burgs over sea ... heard from his lips their fate."
Our Day In the Light of Prophecy William Ambrose Spicer 1908
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He appeased the discontent of Northumbria and the Five Burgs by permitting them a certain amount of local independence, with the enjoyment of their own laws and their own lawmen.
Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Grant Allen 1873
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