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It is easy to laugh -- not perhaps very easy to abstain from laughing -- at the "schall" twisted in Corinne's hair, where even contemporaries mocked the hideous turban with which Madame de Stael chose to bedizen her not too beautiful head; at Nelvil's inky cloak; at the putting out of the fire; at the queer stilted half-Ossianic, half-German rants put in the poetess's mouth; at the endless mingling of gallantry and pedantry; at the hesitations of Nelvil; at the agonies of
Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy R. S. [Illustrator] Greig 1791
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"schall" or scarf complete, to that more terrible portrait of Madame de
Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy R. S. [Illustrator] Greig 1791
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Corinne, her exploits with her "schall" (a vestment of which Madame de
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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The howtosayto itiswhatis hemustwhomust worden schall.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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When I teach faculty how to use our web-based content-delivery system, I invite them to imagine berobed Herr Doktors sitting in cloistered University halls circa 1505 saying to each other, Vat schall ve do mit ziss 'book' uf Gutenberg's?
Criticizing the person versus criticizing the idea Clark Aldrich 2005
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And therfore I schall holde me stille, and retornen to that that I have seen.
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Now schall I seye zou also the weye, that gothe fro Babiloyne to the Mount of Synay, where Seynte Kateryne lythe.
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Of which londes and iles, I schall speake more pleynly hereaftre.
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I schall devise zou sum partie of thinges that there ben, whan time schalle ben, aftre it may best come to my mynde; and specially for hem, that wylle and are in purpos for to visite the holy citee of
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Now schall I seye zou also the weye, that gothe fro Babiloyne to the Mount of Synay, where Seynte Kateryne lythe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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