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  • His eyes seemed to look far beyond the wall at which they stared; and he narrated how, one night, a messenger arrived from his "poor Mohammed," requiring his presence at the "residenz" -- as he called it -- which was distant some nine or ten miles by a bridle-path over a cultivated plain, with patches of forest here and there.

    Lord Jim 1899

  • a messenger arrived from his "poor Mohammed," requiring his presence at the "residenz" -- as he called it -- which was distant some nine or ten miles by a bridle-path over a cultivated plain, with patches of forest here and there.

    Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1890

  • I hab tis worry tat my kitteh will tayk up residenz on a stair, an in teh middl ob teh nite my deer mama step on kitteh an fall.

    I not playin wit you guys - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • A young man, fresh from the University of Göttingen, goes to finish his education at the _residenz_ of D----.

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

  • _residenz_ or privileged abode of the Grand Duke, and Jena, the university founded by that house.

    Biographical Essays Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • residenz” — as he called it — which was distant some nine or ten miles by a bridle-path over a cultivated plain, with patches of forest here and there.

    Lord Jim 1900

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