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The St Gothard pass, linking the canton with Austria, had recently been opened, and the Hapsburgs in Vienna had dispatched a new and cruel 'vogt' or bailiff by the name of Hermann Gessler to enforce the Austrian Reich among the snowy peaks.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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The St Gothard pass, linking the canton with Austria, had recently been opened, and the Hapsburgs in Vienna had dispatched a new and cruel 'vogt' or bailiff by the name of Hermann Gessler to enforce the Austrian Reich among the snowy peaks.
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I voted Ron Paul in the primary and I'm going to vote Obama in the GE. nalynd vogt
Paul: Not ready to endorse McCain, likes Obama's foreign policy 2008
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When bound to the stake, two cartloads of fagots and straw were piled up around him, and the palsgrave and vogt for the last time adjured him to abjure.
The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition Upton Sinclair 1923
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When bound to the stake, two cartloads of fagots and straw were piled up around him, and the palsgrave and vogt for the last time adjured him to abjure.
The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation 1918
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In 1244 the vogt Henry IV entered a German monastery.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Moreover, since by custom the secular rulers had obtained the right of presentation to various benefices or the right of veto, with the title on the Continent of advocates or vogt, the numerous claimants for the livings were only too ready to admit every possible demand of their lord, if only he would permit them to possess the bishopric, abbacy, or whatever else it might be.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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In olden times, when a king sent his vogt to a village, the peasants received him with flowers in one hand and arms in the other, and asked him -- which law he intended to apply: the one he found in the village, or the one he brought with him?
Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin 1881
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