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  • As soon as I walked through the door, the receptionist said, "Rucken schmerz?" or back pain.

    Today baggyk 2004

  • No, it's none of these things uniquely, but rather a strange hybrid of all three modes, along with some exquisite ranting, nostalgic taking-stock, a few gobs of Welt-schmerz and some uplifting daily affirmations.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

  • Paptaste udderly, semped sempsemp dezhavoo, qued schmerz -- Excuse me.

    The Day of the Boomer Dukes Frederik Pohl 1957

  • And if he had chosen to establish that 'dernier cri' of modern civilization where ladies go who have 'welt-schmerz' without knowing why, -- a sanitarium, he might have gained back again all the money he had lost in giving his Grantham stock to Eldon Parr.

    The Inside of the Cup — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

  • He had his own 'welt-schmerz', though he did not go to a sanitarium to cure it; he was forced to set an age limit of ten, and then establish a high court of appeal; for there were boys whose biographies, if they are ever written, will be as hazy as those of certain world-wide celebrities who might be mentioned concerning the date and exact spot of the entrance of their heroes into the light.

    The Inside of the Cup — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

  • And if he had chosen to establish that 'dernier cri' of modern civilization where ladies go who have 'welt-schmerz' without knowing why,

    The Inside of the Cup — Volume 04 Winston Churchill 1909

  • And if he had chosen to establish that 'dernier cri' of modern civilization where ladies go who have 'welt-schmerz' without knowing why,

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • But, though these circumstances may to some extent accentuate, they have nothing to do with causing the _weltschmerz_ or _selbst-schmerz_, or whatever it is to be called, of this not very heroic hero.

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

  • _Welt-schmerz, _ and can scarcely be civil to the hero of the bleeding heart.

    Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Henry Jones 1887

  • Russias, 'the proper _Welt-schmerz_ of a young, disconsolate people.

    The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson With a memoir by Arthur Symons Ernest Christopher Dowson 1883

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