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Soon she entered the passage between Langeland and Laaland, occasionally sounding her foghorn as warning to the Dan - ish fishing boats.
The Heirs of Babylon Cook, Glen 1972
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The real physical boundary between the North Sea and the Baltic is formed by the plateau on which the islands Zealand, Fünen and Laaland are situated, and its prolongation from the islands Falster and Möen to the coasts of Mecklenburg and Rügen.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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"I have starved to the bone in Laaland without complaint, stood six weeks on watch in Stralsund's Franken gate, eating my meals at my post, and John M'Iver never turned skirts on an enemy."
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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Having done so, she was to be run aground on a shoal between the Danish island of Laaland and the
The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War Edward S. [Illustrator] Hodgson 1917
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A shining example of loyalty to their faith was set by the nuns of St. Bridget at Maribo on Laaland.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Benedictines at the cathedral, Odense and at Halsted (Laaland);
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement] 1840-1916 1913
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Dominicans at Odense; Carmelites at Assens; a convent of Poor Clares at Odense; and a Brigittine abbey at Maribo (Laaland), the latter until 1620.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement] 1840-1916 1913
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At Korsör, on the Great Belt, we again go on board a steamer which in a few hours takes us between Langeland and Laaland to Kiel, the principal naval port of Germany.
From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Sven Anders Hedin 1908
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Laaland, met the Danish fleet, and after a desperate conflict completely defeated and destroyed it.
History of Holland George Edmundson 1889
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Crossing that dreary waste diagonally some dozen miles to another arm of the sea ten miles wide, which the ices of a winter of almost unprecedented severity had also bridged, pushing boldly on, with a recklessness which nothing but success redeems from stupendous infatuation, he crossed this fragile surface, which any storm might crumble beneath his feet, and landed upon the western coast of Laaland.
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