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Holland
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  • Every morning I'd been ordering up the hotel breakfasts, grimly plowing through them — wasn't Holland meant to be famous for its coffee?   (source)
    Holland = the Netherlands
  • Ads have been banned from children's television programming in Norway, Belgium, Ireland, and Holland.   (source)
  • In short, Holland looked like Indianapolis, only with smaller cars.   (source)
    Holland = Informal reference to the Netherlands
  • High on the wall behind Mr. Curtain's desk, in a heavy silver frame, hung an old map of Holland   (source)
    Holland = the Netherlands
  • ConAgra's Lamb Weston division now manufactures frozen french fries in Holland, India, and Turkey.   (source)
  • When his parents died, he was sent here from Holland to live with his aunt.   (source)
  • She either moved to Holland with the Dutch Tulip Man or didn't.   (source)
    Holland = Informal reference to the Netherlands
  • I was born in Holland, you see — an orphan like yourself.   (source)
    Holland = the Netherlands
  • Holland, maybe.   (source)
  • On the desk we found a wicker basket full of presents from the Genies: wooden shoes, an orange Holland T-shirt, chocolates, and various other goodies.   (source)
    Holland = Informal reference to the Netherlands
  • Some Van Houtens moved to the United States long ago, and Peter is of those, but he moved to Holland after his novel.   (source)
  • I don't miss my childhood, but I do, on occasion, miss Holland, a country with an admirable tradition.   (source)
    Holland = the Netherlands
  • Your map of Holland, sir?   (source)
  • And I think after Anna dies, Anna's mom goes to Holland with him and thinks they will live there forever, but it doesn't work out, because she wants to be near where her daughter was.   (source)
    Holland = Informal reference to the Netherlands
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  • Japan held some 132,000 POWs from America, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Holland, and Australia.†   (source)
  • No, Rabbi, six million in Poland and Germany and Holland and France and …†   (source)
  • The Christians in Holland are also living in fear because their sons are being sent to Germany.†   (source)
  • We can buy fresh tomatoes in the middle of the winter, flown in from Israel or Holland or Mexico.†   (source)
  • It was flying to Holland to end the war.†   (source)
  • At least that's what Mrs. Holland was always telling us last year, when we studied U.S. History.†   (source)
  • Finally I came across a woman named Frances Holland who told me about two girls who befriended her when she was a new student in the seventh grade at Thomas Jefferson Junior High: Ruth Shilsky and Frances Moody.†   (source)
  • People in a place called Holland do.†   (source)
  • He turned the tablet on its side to reveal that it had been inscribed with Mae's full name: MAEBELLINE RENNER HOLLAND.†   (source)
  • Usually it was fog in January in Holland, dank, chill, and gray.†   (source)
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  • Holland and Belgium fell.†   (source)
  • Ladies with the airs of queens descended from their carriages at the entrance to the notions shop, unencumbered by nursemaids or servants, and as they pretended to buy Holland laces and passementerie trimmings, they pawned, between sobs, the last glittering ornaments of their lost paradise.†   (source)
  • Later he lived for some years in Paris, but in 129 he went to Holland, where he remained for nearly twenty years working on his mathematical and philosophic writings.†   (source)
  • His little Navy was scattered all over after the Germans took Holland.†   (source)
  • White parachuted into Normandy the night before D-Day and later into Holland.†   (source)
  • In reality, the change would have occurred only on the mirrored hard drive in Holland.†   (source)
  • The Holland Tunnel.†   (source)
  • Tourist buses, from Holland, from Denmark, from Germany, stood in the square before the cathedral.†   (source)
  • They were nearly all Jews: Juliek, a bespectacled Pole with a cynical smile on his pale face; Louis, a distinguished violinist who came from Holland — he complained that they would not let him play Beethoven: Jews were not allowed to play German music; Hans, a lively young Berliner.†   (source)
  • In Holland I went to VAM, a waste treatment plant that handles a million tons of garbage a year.†   (source)
  • Indeed, some traffickers believe that trafficking girls into Sweden is no longer profitable and that girls should be taken to Holland instead.†   (source)
  • In June 2007, after two weeks with his family, Adam was off again, this time to Holland for training in specialized fighting techniques.†   (source)
  • Around noon, the models arrived and began to get ready in the store that had been Holland Farms Cheeses and Gifts until it had just recently gone out of business.†   (source)
  • "I'm Gabby Holland."†   (source)
  • Are you going to tell me now where we're going?" she asked when we exited the Holland Tunnel.†   (source)
  • Says Holland Smith, 'How can men like that ever be defeated?†   (source)
  • We've got boatloads of peas that are on the high seas from Atlanta to Holland to pay for the tulips that were shipped to Geneva to pay for the cheeses that must go to Vienna M.I.F.' M.I.F.?†   (source)
  • Another evening, while driving back through Manhattan from a trauma conference in New Jersey, a streetwalker caught my eye as she stepped out from under an awning near the Holland Tunnel.†   (source)
  • What I'd do, I figured, I'd go down to the Holland Tunnel and bum a ride, and then I'd bum another one, and another one, and another one, and in a few days I'd be somewhere out West where it was very pretty and sunny and where nobody'd know me and I'd get a job.†   (source)
  • My pallbearers are: Harvey Moss, Duane Thomas, Steve Holland, Billy Bowles, Mike Mills, and Walter Robinson.†   (source)
  • I understand she married a very nice gentleman from Holland.†   (source)
  • Holland grinned; it was a smile of youth belied by streaked gray hair, the grin of a professional momentarily freed of executive concerns so as to return to the world he knew best.†   (source)
  • For as Franklin also reported to Congress, Adams had by then departed Paris for Holland to see, as he told Franklin, "whether something might be done to render us less dependent on France."†   (source)
  • On June 1 the Oswalds board a train from Moscow to Holland.†   (source)
  • And when we tried to imitate England, France, Germany, Holland, and even Spain, in seizing regions of the world, it was pathetic.†   (source)
  • One woman phoned from Holland to say she and her husband had swum around the room together.†   (source)
  • Holland, until overwhelmed by debt and taxes, led and participated in European wars.†   (source)
  • France, and Spain, and Sweden—or maybe Holland?†   (source)
  • A woman as governor of the state of Irrakwa, and a Red at that, accepted as the equal of the governors of Suskwahenny, Pennsylvania, New Amsterdam, New Sweden, New Orange, New Holland--†   (source)
  • It was Goring who was responsible more than anyone in the German high command for the looting of art museums and private collections in countries like Holland, Belgium, France, Austria, Poland …†   (source)
  • The increasing river of traffic for New York carried me along, and suddenly there was the welcoming maw of the Holland Tunnel and at the other end home.†   (source)
  • They came across the ocean from England and Scotland or over from Holland and up from Pennsylvania, and they cajoled the Indians, sometimes shot them, took the woods and the sloping meadowland and made an Eden out of it--and then moved on.†   (source)
  • I knew Holland well ... I'd lived there for nine years.†   (source)
  • Aboard the Capitan Elias, he saw Holland and Norway.†   (source)
  • They ended with the national anthems of England, Holland, and the United States.†   (source)
  • "Her name is Mae Holland," Francis said, and for the first time, looked down to her.†   (source)
  • We knew, of course, that there was an underground in Holland—or suspected it.†   (source)
  • Now it's not just the Jews, but Holland and all of occupied Europe.†   (source)
  • I've used the terms Holland and the Netherlands as though they mean the same thing.†   (source)
  • Surely the invasion of Holland had begun!†   (source)
  • "Okay," Gus said, typing the name into his tablet, "Mae Holland."†   (source)
  • During the night before Christmas Eve, winter took hold of Holland and clenched its fist.†   (source)
  • They've published maps of Holland with the potential flood areas marked.†   (source)
  • Holland would have become German, and that would have been the end of that!†   (source)
  • I traveled all over Holland, to other parts of Europe, to the United States.†   (source)
  • I can't believe Mae Holland signed my petition!†   (source)
  • The next time I was in Holland I put an advert in a few newspapers.†   (source)
  • "Hello everyone, I'm Mae Holland," she said, and the applause started again.†   (source)
  • All of Holland is being punished or the workers' strikes.†   (source)
  • Holland's neutrality would be respected.†   (source)
  • The British would not send your grandfather to Holland with his real name.†   (source)
  • So I started investigating, researching, the war in Holland.†   (source)
  • Three years after Mama's death, I became the first licensed woman watchmaker in Holland.†   (source)
  • He was reconciled to the idea that he might be the last good man to leave Holland.†   (source)
  • "I was to Holland once," he said, voice wistful with recollection.†   (source)
  • HOLLAND 1945 Things happened so fast and so close together that they seemed like one thing.†   (source)
  • That was one thing the occupation had done for Holland; churches were packed.†   (source)
  • Only a few people—like Willem—insisted that the war was Holland's tragedy too.†   (source)
  • We've just killed the top Nazi in Holland.†   (source)
  • One glorious, nippy November day when all of Holland was singing with me, the doorbell rang.†   (source)
  • SS Lieutenant General Hanns Albin Rauter, head of internal security for Holland, was unhappy.†   (source)
  • It was Sunday, May 10, 1942, exactly two years after the fall of Holland.†   (source)
  • In Holland, flights of German fighters would be taking off.†   (source)
  • "One way or another," he said, "we'll be in Holland soon.†   (source)
  • Maybe we would still be in Holland when liberation came.†   (source)
  • Some in Holland, well, it would be like an insult maybe.†   (source)
  • Here in neutral Holland one sunlit June day followed another.†   (source)
  • I was only too eager to tell Mr. Moorman and all Holland how Jan Vogel had betrayed his country.†   (source)
  • Are you saying, sir, that there will be no effort to liberate the rest of Holland?†   (source)
  • FOR FIVE DAYS Holland held out against the invader.†   (source)
  • HOLLAND 1945 Dart awoke on Sunday 18th March with a brain as busy as a pit of snakes.†   (source)
  • The couple escaped across the Rhine, under German fire, shortly before Holland was liberated.†   (source)
  • How easy it would be, back in Holland, to get another—a hundred others.†   (source)
  • Oh Corrie, it's the happiest home in Holland!"†   (source)
  • You'll both be in Holland in less than a week.†   (source)
  • She believed he'd rescued her, saved her life, even, getting her out of Holland.†   (source)
  • Then we were all singing together, the full voice of Holland singing her forbidden anthem.†   (source)
  • HOLLAND 1945 On the morning of 5th January, Tamar sat at the kitchen table of Sanctuary Farm.†   (source)
  • I looked at my sister kneeling beside me in the light of burning Holland.†   (source)
  • THE SECOND WEEK in May the Allies retook Holland.†   (source)
  • One question ached through all of Holland like a long-held breath: would there be war?†   (source)
  • During the first year of German rule, there were only minor attacks on Jews in Holland.†   (source)
  • We have no authority to travel to Holland to interview the ambassador.†   (source)
  • She typed in an FTP address for a server in Holland and got a command screen.†   (source)
  • Adams's part in Holland and at Paris had been profound.†   (source)
  • After a moment, she took it and said, "I'm Gabby Holland.†   (source)
  • The computer instantly began copying Armansky's hard drive to the server in Holland.†   (source)
  • And that we plan to pay our debts to France and Holland with militiamen instead of money.†   (source)
  • Holland glanced over at Conklin; both men smiled.†   (source)
  • "Two tickets to Paris," said Holland, his face ashen.†   (source)
  • The icon MikBlom/laptop was still on the server in Holland.†   (source)
  • He says Germany is "more imperfect than Holland and Switzerland ….†   (source)
  • Madame de Lafayette had escaped to Holland.†   (source)
  • In an exuberant letter to Abigail, he called Holland "the greatest curiosity in the world."†   (source)
  • She connected to the server in Holland and double-clicked on the MikBlom/laptop icon.†   (source)
  • Holland would buy and transport British goods to our markets.†   (source)
  • He and Peter Holland have their priorities and we have ours.†   (source)
  • "Alex!" roared the gray-haired Holland, running to the bench.†   (source)
  • As America faced the challenge of a continental wilderness, Holland faced the North Sea.†   (source)
  • Holland gave it to him; Alex wrote it down and hung up.†   (source)
  • Peter Holland threw him out, but he gave him a going away present.†   (source)
  • He just wanted us to "They've got your boy's name and address by now," said Holland.†   (source)
  • Alex looked at Peter Holland; they both glanced at Mo, then back at each other.†   (source)
  • "Director Holland?" he said, approaching Peter, extending his hand.†   (source)
  • "Now," said Holland, sitting up in the seat, straightening his back and shoulders.†   (source)
  • Again Holland paused, not in irritation now, but searching for the words.†   (source)
  • You've got to be joking," said Holland, staring at Panov.†   (source)
  • "Then we'd better damn well bring in Peter Holland-"†   (source)
  • Peter Holland leaned back in his chair, rigid, intense.†   (source)
  • Oh, for Christ's sake, cut the crap!" laughed Holland.†   (source)
  • Holland leaned back in his chair, gazing first at the papers on his desk and then up at Alex.†   (source)
  • "Alex!" cried Holland from Langley, Virginia.†   (source)
  • "Count on it," said Holland with a trace of anger.†   (source)
  • Holland suddenly stopped talking and shut his eyes.†   (source)
  • You don't have to do this," insisted Holland.†   (source)
  • "What about this Sterile Five?" asked Panov, now looking at Holland.†   (source)
  • The angry voice of Peter Holland was back on the line.†   (source)
  • Naturally, at the sight of Peter Holland, the steward was astonished.†   (source)
  • It's a terrific libretto," allowed Holland, a slow smile breaking across his face.†   (source)
  • Jason Bourne's gone hunting," said Peter Holland.†   (source)
  • I didn't tell him everything," said Peter Holland quietly, shaking his head as he spoke.†   (source)
  • On the island," replied Alex, avoiding Holland's eyes.†   (source)
  • Holland went to the table with the coffee urn and poured two cups.†   (source)
  • Exasperated, Holland sank back into his chair.†   (source)
  • Holland angrily reached for the recorder, snapping it off.†   (source)
  • "Of course you didn't, Ensign Holland, but we've got a problem."†   (source)
  • He tells me you know what he's requesting and that you have no objections, Director Holland.†   (source)
  • The Aeroflot flight's obvious," said Holland.†   (source)
  • It doesn't bother you?" asked Holland, studying Alex.†   (source)
  • "We have to call you something," said Holland.†   (source)
  • … Alex, tell Holland you couldn't reach me.†   (source)
  • "Exactly what you did," answered Holland, a tight grin on his lips.†   (source)
  • Peter Holland's flying them all up to a safe house in Virginia, Mrs. Cooper included.†   (source)
  • Holland could still pull all the plugs and probably will.†   (source)
  • You mean after Holland told me about it?†   (source)
  • No. I was with Peter Holland for five hours yesterday.†   (source)
  • Peter Holland can make it happen; he's the president's crony.†   (source)
  • "That depends on the truthfulness of your answers," said Holland, returning to the bed.†   (source)
  • There's been a change of plans," said Holland.†   (source)
  • The nurse did as she was ordered and fled, leaving Holland and Alex alone in the antiseptic maze.†   (source)
  • "I don't think it's anybody's," concurred Holland.†   (source)
  • Alex Conklin called several hours ago and said somebody named Holland would reach us.†   (source)
  • "Since I don't either," said Holland, "may I have a word with you, Frank?"†   (source)
  • Not for an analyst's analyst," countered Holland.†   (source)
  • But you won't put it on tape," said Holland, a disturbed inflection in his voice.†   (source)
  • "Use the phone in my car," said Holland.†   (source)
  • Holland flipped through his legal pad and stopped at a specific page.†   (source)
  • "I understand, Director Holland," said Casset coldly.†   (source)
  • "Neither am I," said Holland, standing up behind the desk.†   (source)
  • "Let's go, Alex," said Holland curtly, walking away from the bed toward the door.†   (source)
  • Holland called me a few minutes ago and said it was on its way over.†   (source)
  • Remember, you insisted we keep Langley and Peter Holland away from Medusa.†   (source)
  • "What are you going to do?" pressed Holland.†   (source)
  • We think they might have, so why not start with Admiral Holland?†   (source)
  • … Although I should tell you, Marie, I told Peter Holland yesterday that it was terrific.†   (source)
  • From left field," replied Casset, nodding and placing several stock photographs on Holland's desk.†   (source)
  • Peter Holland reached for the limousine's telephone, pushing three buttons.†   (source)
  • Holland took an oath, and everything we know about him says he took it seriously.†   (source)
  • "You're safe, that's all that matters, Doctor," said Holland.†   (source)
  • Conklin and Peter Holland looked at each other.†   (source)
  • Because you're an analyst at heart, Charlie," answered Holland.†   (source)
  • Peter Holland's head arched back into the top of the velvet seat, his eyes half closed.†   (source)
  • No Peter Holland and I'm not independently wealthy.†   (source)
  • Peter Holland will get you all the help you need.†   (source)
  • Conklin turned his head, his eyes wide open, and looked at Holland.†   (source)
  • In forty-one they dropped me into Holland and I stayed there nearly two years.†   (source)
  • He walked out of the room, the rather shuffling walk he had affected since arriving in Holland.†   (source)
  • At Leiden in Holland in my father's workshop, with some Dutch friends.†   (source)
  • We never expected you to bring me here—Holland, yes—but not here.†   (source)
  • We would have been content with Peters' report from Holland.†   (source)
  • Spring had finally come, and now there could be no doubt that the Allies, who had spent the winter making suitable preparations, would attack Germany simultaneously from France, Belgium and Holland, break through the Siegfried Line, take the Saarland, Bavaria and northern Germany, conquer Berlin, and liberate Warsaw that summer at the latest.†   (source)
  • Everyone felt bad that Holland had been conquered by the Nazis Then an army officer climbed out of a truck and told us all to leave the Queen Emma bridge.†   (source)
  • During the days he worked at his brother Lutfi's construction-materials store, hearing the stories of Ahmad's continuing adventures, his trips to China, Australia, South Africa, Holland.†   (source)
  • "A shipment from Holland," some said.†   (source)
  • Its only function was to send instructions to start another programme in another server, which in this case was a perfectly ordinary commercial ISP offering Internet services in Holland.†   (source)
  • My mother, Edith Hollander Frank, went with him to Holland in September, while Margot and I were sent to Aachen to stay with our grandmother.†   (source)
  • So I've asked Mae Holland, who some of you might know as one of our newbies in Customer Experience, to join me today.†   (source)
  • "Sorry Mrs. Holland," Mercer said.†   (source)
  • They were granted the right to asylum in Holland, but once Hitler is gone, they should go back to Germany.†   (source)
  • On September 11, 1944, they were transferred, without benefit of a trial, to a camp in Amersfoort (Holland).†   (source)
  • Is Mae Holland awesome or what?†   (source)
  • Glitch No. 5 616ARN/MRH/RK2 Day: Tuesday, June 11 Participants: Mae Holland, Alistair Knight Story: Alistair of the Renaissance, Team Nine, held a brunch for all staffers who had demonstrated an interest in Portugal.†   (source)
  • Margot went to Holland in December, and I followed in February, when I was plunked down on the table as a birthday present for Margot.†   (source)
  • She used words like "soon, when I'm back in Holland," "a swift liberation," "heroism" and "heavy burdens."†   (source)
  • It said: MAE HOLLAND: 10,028.†   (source)
  • The Germans are capable of herding the entire population of Holland into Germany, where they'll all die.†   (source)
  • WELCOME MAE HOLLAND.†   (source)
  • Mussert* [* The leader of the Dutch National Socialist (Nazi) Party] has announced that if the invasion reaches Holland, he'll enlist.†   (source)
  • Mae Holland?†   (source)
  • This is Mae Holland.†   (source)
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  • Holland's bringing him.   (source)
    holland = a person's name
  • Farley sneers, turning her fearsome gaze on Holland.   (source)
  • "The boy speaks true," the manservant Holland says.   (source)
  • "Tell me what you told him," she says, tipping her head toward Holland.   (source)
  • Walsh and Holland fled with Farley, according to our plan.   (source)
  • Holland glances sidelong at Maven, as if remembering the boy he was.   (source)
  • "Walsh and Holland"—she jerks her head toward them—"tell me there's going to be a little party here."   (source)
  • His companion Holland, an aging Red servant with years of service behind him, seems to swell with pride.   (source)
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