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Edelweiss is the national flower of Austria and the song articulates mourning for its loss to the fascist jackboot.
Archive 2006-11-12 Newmania 2006
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Edelweiss is the national flower of Austria and the song articulates mourning for its loss to the fascist jackboot.
The Sound of Music !!! Newmania 2006
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Here grows in abundance the Edelweiss, which is so rare and so prized in Switzerland.
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Now you must know the Edelweiss is a little white flower that grows away up in the snow of the mountains of Switzerland.
Kernel Cob And Little Miss Sweetclover George Mitchel
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At Ronn they learned that the operator had been unable to call Edelweiss since seven o'clock.
Truxton King A Story of Graustark George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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It happened to come into his head how the Swiss youth climb the sides of the Alps to find the flower called the Edelweiss for the maidens whom they wish to please.
Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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It happened to come into his head how the Swiss youth climb the sides of the Alps to find the flower called the Edelweiss for the maidens whom they wish to please.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Some foreigners think "Edelweiss" - composed for the musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein - is Austria's national anthem.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Known as the Edelweiss unit, Abwehr 218 was led by an Austrian noble, SS Major Erwein Graf Count Thun-Hohenstein.
Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004
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