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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See spraich.

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Examples

  • He'd managed to craft one of the most brilliant comic monologues of all time based on Ehret's zany diet-sprach.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • The opening bars of Richard Strauss's monumental, Nietzsche-inspired Also sprach Zarathustra may have won fame in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 but this symphonic poem is yet mightier, more intriguing and orchestrally adventurous than the film's unforgettable soundtrack suggests.

    CBSO, Stephen Hough/Nelsons; Bamberg Symphony Orchestra/Nott – review 2012

  • Also sprach Arnold Kling: Regardless of who is President from 2005-2008, it is reasonable to expect that the economy will add about 200,000 jobs a month, or rougly 10 million jobs overall.

    Presidents and Jobs, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Note 68: ein stimm als ein donrslag, dú sprach: Warumb bettest du mir nit min sequenci?

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

  • Vnd do si in dirr andaht was, do sah si einen byschoff vor ir stan, vnd hatt der einen guldin kelch in siner hant vnd sprach zü ir: 'Enpfiengist du gern vnsern herren?'

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

  • Note 111: do si eines tages in dem werchhus sass mit werch, das got gross wunder in ir wurkte, da von si nit volsagen kundi, won das si sprach: Got der gab mir sölich empfinden vnd als gross gnád, das mich dunkt, jch hett wol aller der welt gnüg geben.

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

  • Also sprach Zarathustra was yet another example of this motif of false dualism which, if a significant number of people are fooled by it, can cause mayhem.

    [gnosis] gnosticism, gnostics 2009

  • The Foss piece is a rather dark and exacting meditation on time, loss, and arguably time regained set to works by A.E. Houseman, W.H. Auden, and O Mensch! from Nietzsche's Also sprach Zarathustra.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • The Foss piece is a rather dark and exacting meditation on time, loss, and arguably time regained set to works by A.E. Houseman, W.H. Auden, and O Mensch! from Nietzsche's Also sprach Zarathustra.

    Wonder Sandwich 2007

  • Also sprach Zarathustra was yet another example of this motif of false dualism which, if a significant number of people are fooled by it, can cause mayhem.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

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