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  • A Scotch form of wise.

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  • Woeser used her two blogs - oser. tibetcul.net and blog. daqi.com/weise - to post her poems and essays about Tibetan culture, as well as articles written by her husband, Wang Lixiong, an independent Chinese writer.

    Boing Boing: July 30, 2006 - August 5, 2006 Archives 2006

  • Others whom he got to know included Finbright, Byway, Zoomboy, and the weise Frau Allhealer.

    Ensign Flandry Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1966

  • Steps were taken immediately the Germans had successfully completed the invasion of a foreign country, or had occupied a considerable part of it, to put into force the requirements and restrictions which weise already applicable to Jews in the Reich.

    Commandant of Auschwitz Hoess, Rudolf 1951

  • Dan ihr must viel gebrauchen daz weise von Ganze und

    The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

  • Sapienter (Psallieret weise) (Freiburg im Br, 1905), II, 294-331, an extensive account of the mystical and liturgical uses of the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • Lock-weise, fluttering forth hopefully to find a "dear companion."

    The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

  • He sets the silver horn to his lips and gaily blowing the Lock-weise starts up the mountain and is lost among the swirling sanguine smoke-clouds.

    The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

  • He places the horn to his lips and sounds the cheery _Lock-weise_ (lure-call) over and over, with long sustained notes between the calls, during which he looks up at the bird, to see how he likes it.

    The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

  • He has returned to the Lock-weise, and is repeating it with obstinate persistence, a-mind not to stop until the companion his lonesomeness yearns for shall have answered him when a bellowing sound behind him makes him face about.

    The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

  • Sundry epigrams had also come over to us; among others, the characterization of the three German Emperors: the first William as ` ` Der greise Kaiser, '' the Emperor Frederick as ` ` Der weise Kaiser, '' and the second William as ` ` Der Reise Kaiser ''; and there were unpleasant murmurs regarding sundry trials for petty treason.

    [Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White 1906

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