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  • "Well," she began, "there was once a prince of Denmark, named Hamlet…."†   (source)
  • Meanwhile the Germans invaded Denmark, but in the opinion of our local politicians that meant nothing.†   (source)
  • Nathaniel happily obliges, and it's as if the Prince of Denmark has joined us for breakfast, punctuating his soliloquy with a fork.†   (source)
  • The suicide rate rose after the publication of the novel, and for a time the book was banned in Denmark and Norway.†   (source)
  • I remembered from school that we had bought the Virgins from Denmark He laughed.†   (source)
  • Tourist buses, from Holland, from Denmark, from Germany, stood in the square before the cathedral.†   (source)
  • Peter had been a student at a boarding school in Denmark.†   (source)
  • Like, you know, I had a boyfriend back home in Denmark.†   (source)
  • But as I said, that could mean anything in Denmark.†   (source)
  • Planes poured in from Norway, Denmark, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Sweden, Finland, Poland — from everywhere in Europe, in fact, but Russia, with whom Milo refused to do business.†   (source)
  • There is a nationwide APB out and we've alerted the police in Norway and Denmark.†   (source)
  • Now her firstborn had seen Russia and returned to288 Europe on his own by way of Finland, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany, as she knew from John's letters, though from the boy himself she had not had a line in two years.†   (source)
  • I went to Sweden, Norway, and Denmark last summer.†   (source)
  • That's fine by me," squeaked a girl from Denmark.†   (source)
  • Denmark, California-style.†   (source)
  • They whispered about a man named Denmark Vesey.†   (source)
  • ROS: So-so your uncle is the king of Denmark?†   (source)
  • The Judge and Randy's mother had bought the set in Denmark on their summer in Europe in 'fifty-four.†   (source)
  • To the right of her was the shallow wind-swept Kiel Bay, dotted with sailing craft; on her left as she strolled north toward the distant coastal barrens of Denmark were sand dunes, and behind these a forest of pinetrees and evergreen shimmered in the noonday sun.†   (source)
  • And then in Denmark I saw that farm or its brother, and it was true, just as it had been in the looking-egg.†   (source)
  • Visions of sugar plums, etc. In the State of Denmark there was the odor of decay… It had been an accident involving an auto, I recalled.†   (source)
  • The date it was drawn coincides with a twoday visit which Mundt paid to Denmark in February.†   (source)
  • If you intersperse this Africa with a little variety — oh, Sweden perhaps, or Denmark or China —†   (source)
  • To live in Denmark, a country surrounded by water, and never to have stood at its edge?†   (source)
  • Denmark waits to make selection decisions until maturity differences by age have evened out.†   (source)
  • You ever hear of a man named Denmark Vesey?†   (source)
  • For days they thought he would die, and all of Denmark had mourned.†   (source)
  • Belgium and Denmark are only an hour or so apart by airplane, for example.†   (source)
  • Why didn't he fight the Nazis so that they wouldn't come into Denmark with their guns?"†   (source)
  • People stood in the streets and wept as they sang the national anthem of Denmark.†   (source)
  • It was a painful fact to recall on this day when there was so much joy in Denmark.†   (source)
  • That all of Denmark would be the king's bodyguard?"†   (source)
  • "The boy looked right at the soldier, and he said, 'All of Denmark is his bodyguard.'†   (source)
  • She doesn't a bit more believe I've been to Norway and Denmark than a man in the moon.†   (source)
  • There were new laws now, because of Denmark.†   (source)
  • When I asked where he was from, she said, "I don't know, Denmark, I think.†   (source)
  • If the pinkos want to start a war with Denmark, then I have to explain why they're wrong.†   (source)
  • Denmark and thirty-four others were hanged.†   (source)
  • In fact it had taken almost twenty hours to reach the northern border of Germany with Denmark.†   (source)
  • Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner haunted the Big House, too.†   (source)
  • If the pinkos want to avoid a war with Denmark, I have to explain why they're wrong."†   (source)
  • Ever since the slaves started all this talk about Denmark Vesey, she had been uneasy, insecure.†   (source)
  • And someone spoke of Denmark Vesey: "We are slaves."†   (source)
  • Denmark Vesey had said, "You deserve to be."†   (source)
  • Things were infinitely worse because of Denmark and all his plots and plans for freedom.†   (source)
  • Old Rit did not like all this talk of freedom and of Denmark Vesey.†   (source)
  • He talked about the slave who protested when Denmark had said that all men were equal.†   (source)
  • And Denmark's answer: "You deserve to be!†   (source)
  • He sighed and started in: "So a couple years ago, the government of Denmark tried a program where they inserted chips in kids' wrists.†   (source)
  • She had some vague recollection of a terrible child abduction and murder— Francis checked his watch, as if knowing that explaining Denmark would steal a minute from him.†   (source)
  • Hong Kong Sweden Denmark Jamaica Singapore It is important to note that Hofstede wasn't suggesting that there was a right place or a wrong place to be on any one of these scales.†   (source)
  • Denmark and Belgium may share in a kind of broad European liberal-democratic tradition, but they have different histories, different political structures, different religious traditions, and different languages and food and architecture and literature, going back hundreds and hundreds of years.†   (source)
  • "Well," Annemarie said slowly, "now I think that all of Denmark must be bodyguard for the Jews, as well."†   (source)
  • Denmark's fishermen didn't wait for sunny days to take their boats out and throw their nets into the sea.†   (source)
  • "Maybe," Annemarie suggested, "standing over there are two girls just our age, looking across and saying, 'That's Denmark!'†   (source)
  • He knew how few soldiers Denmark had.†   (source)
  • Dawn would creep across the Swedish farmland and coast; then it would wash little Denmark with light and move across the North Sea to wake Norway.†   (source)
  • In her mind, Annemarie had pictured Norway as she remembered it from the map at school, up above Denmark.†   (source)
  • "Your army eats all of Denmark's meat."†   (source)
  • And now she and all the Danes — were to be bodyguard for Ellen, and Ellen's parents, and all of Denmark's Jews.†   (source)
  • She remembered a story that Papa had told her, shortly after the war began, shortly after Denmark had surrendered and the soldiers had moved in overnight to take their places on the corners.†   (source)
  • Denmark only has one king, anyway.†   (source)
  • He is the King of Denmark.†   (source)
  • Not in real-life Denmark.†   (source)
  • "Your Vyndra is indeed one of the dukes," murmured Valya, pointing to a section of the map that comprised the majority of Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands.†   (source)
  • Smack in the center is the town where we live, and it is the most unique of all, with its windmills and cobbled sidewalks, designed to carry tourists to Denmark.†   (source)
  • You told me if I lived there, I'd never stop shooting, because they have some kind of birds in Norway and Denmark.†   (source)
  • He crossed the German border at Aachen and then took the Autobahn north towards Hamburg and on to Denmark.†   (source)
  • He pointed to the front page of the morning paper, which had a photograph of Niedermann and the headline POLICE KILLER HUNTED IN DENMARK.†   (source)
  • Denmark?†   (source)
  • In the quarter, at night, when they talked of Denmark they said he had made life harder for the rest of them.†   (source)
  • He might be another Denmark Vesey or Nat Turner— She watched him and felt a prickle of fear run through her.†   (source)
  • Harriet thought that the ghost of Nat Turner had joined the ghost of Denmark Vesey, the carpenter and free man.†   (source)
  • They kept lists of the names of Denmark's followers, of the places where ammunition was kept, places where there were horses, and the names of slaves who looked after horses.†   (source)
  • But every night, before these whispered conversations came to an end, one of the bolder slaves spoke of Denmark Vesey, voice pitched low, not much more than a murmuring in the firelit cabin.†   (source)
  • Night after night they slipped into each other's cabins and talked of the man Denmark Vesey, of freedom, of the children of Israel and how they were led out of bondage.†   (source)
  • Inevitably, someone repeated the verse from Zechariah that Denmark had quoted: "Behold, the day of the Lord cometh …… and the city shall be taken."†   (source)
  • Old Rit taught Harriet the words of that song that the slaves were forbidden to sing, because of the man named Denmark Vesey, who had urged the other slaves to revolt by telling them about Moses and the children of Israel.†   (source)
  • "As England is Denmark's faithful tributary … as love between them like the palm might flourish, etcetera … that on the knowing of this contents, without delay of any kind, should those bearers, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, put to sudden death—2' He double-takes.†   (source)
  • Those dates did indeed coincide with Mundt's visits to Denmark and Finland: they were chosen by London for that very reason.†   (source)
  • … Denmark's a prison and he'd rather live in a nutshell; some shadow-play about the nature of ambition, which never got down to cases, and finally one direct question which might have led somewhere, and led in fact to his illuminating claim to tell a hawk from a handsaw.†   (source)
  • We've come from Denmark.†   (source)
  • ROS (efficiently): I see … I see … well, this seems to support your story such as it is-it is an exact command from the king of Denmark, for several different reasons, importing Denmark's health and England's too, that on the reading of this letter, without delay, I should have Hamlet's head cut off !†   (source)
  • The Murder of Ymir (lithograph, Denmark, A.D. 1845).†   (source)
  • He read, 'The Prince of Denmark is wondering whether he should kill himself or not, whether it is better to go on suffering all the doubts about his father, or by one blow…'†   (source)
  • He had fought like blazes against Denmark, Austria, France.†   (source)
  • Three hours' travelling brought us to the capital of Denmark.†   (source)
  • Indeed, the castle is much younger than the heroic prince of Denmark.†   (source)
  • If in his house there was but one comfortable chair, on his desk were letters, long, intimate, and respectful, from the great ones of France and Germany, Italy and Denmark, and from scientists whom Great Britain so much valued that she gave them titles almost as high as those with which she rewarded distillers, cigarettemanufacturers, and the owners of obscene newspapers.†   (source)
  • It has been described how the Misses Dobbin lived with their father at a fine villa at Denmark Hill, where there were beautiful graperies and peach-trees which delighted little Georgy Osborne.†   (source)
  • On our arrival in Denmark, we found the king and queen of that country elevated in two arm-chairs on a kitchen-table, holding a Court.†   (source)
  • He carried the strictness of this order so far as to detain in England the ambassadors of Denmark, who had taken their leave, and the regular ambassador of Holland, who was to take back to the port of Flushing the Indian merchantmen of which Charles I had made restitution to the United Provinces.†   (source)
  • This gentleman is this afternoon arrived from Denmark; and that is my Lord Ride, who came yesterday from Bagdad; here is Captain Friese, from Cape Turnagain, and Captain Symmes,[432] from the interior of the earth; and Monsieur Jovaire, who came down this morning in a balloon; Mr. Hobnail, the reformer; and Reverend Jul Bat, who has converted the whole torrid zone in his Sunday school; and Signer Torre del Greco, who extinguished Vesuvius by pouring into it the Bay of Naples; Spahr,…†   (source)
  • So, when I had pledged myself to comfort and abet Herbert in the affair of his heart by all practicable and impracticable means, and when Herbert had told me that his affianced already knew me by reputation and that I should be presented to her, and when we had warmly shaken hands upon our mutual confidence, we blew out our candles, made up our fire, locked our door, and issued forth in quest of Mr. Wopsle and Denmark.†   (source)
  • The ladies begged occasionally that the child might pass a day with them, and he was always glad to go to that fine garden-house at Denmark Hill, where they lived, and where there were such fine grapes in the hot-houses and peaches on the walls.†   (source)
  • The Queen of Denmark, a very buxom lady, though no doubt historically brazen, was considered by the public to have too much brass about her; her chin being attached to her diadem by a broad band of that metal (as if she had a gorgeous toothache), her waist being encircled by another, and each of her arms by another, so that she was openly mentioned as "the kettle-drum."†   (source)
  • One day, after great entreaties on the part of the Misses Dobbin, Amelia allowed little George to go and pass a day with them at Denmark Hill—a part of which day she spent herself in writing to the Major in India.†   (source)
  • In an hour the capital of Denmark seemed to sink below the distant waves, and the VALKYRIA was skirting the coast by Elsinore.†   (source)
  • At evening the schooner doubled the Skaw at the northern point of Denmark, in the night passed the Skager Rack, skirted Norway by Cape Lindness, and entered the North Sea.†   (source)
  • Sir, said he, men calleth me Melias de Lile, and I am the son of the King of Denmark.†   (source)
  • Our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in Kings more than repeated petitioning—and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the Kings of Europe absolute: Witness Denmark and Sweden.†   (source)
  • …to me when a boy, frequently repeated a proverb of Solomon, "Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men," I from thence considered industry as a means of obtaining wealth and distinction, which encourag'd me, tho' I did not think that I should ever literally stand before kings, which, however, has since happened; for I have stood before five, and even had the honor of sitting down with one, the King of Denmark, to dinner.†   (source)
  • So three of them said they were of Gaul, and other three said they were of Ireland, and the other three said they were of Denmark.†   (source)
  • AND as King Arthur rode to Camelot, and held there a great feast with mirth and joy, so soon after he returned unto Cardoile, and there came unto Arthur new tidings that the king of Denmark, and the king of Ireland that was his brother, and the king of the Vale, and the king of Soleise, and the king of the Isle of Longtains, all these five kings with a great host were entered into the land of King Arthur, and burnt and slew clean afore them, both cities and castles, that it was pity to…†   (source)
  • Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.   (source)
    Denmark = Today, officially known as "The Kingdom of Denmark"; a constitutional monarchy in the Scandinavian region of northern Europe which was at one time the home of Viking raiding parties and is today a member of the EU and NATO
  • 'Danes from Denmark is tasting ever so much of dogs,' the Giant went on.†   (source)
  • 'Danes from Denmark is tasting doggy because they is tasting of labradors!'†   (source)
  • He wars a white jersey on which an image of the Sacred Heart is stitched with the insignia of Garter and Thistle, Golden Fleece, Elephant of Denmark, Skinner's and Probyn's horse, Lincoln's Inn bencher and ancient and honourable artillery company of Massachusetts.†   (source)
  • Visiting Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, France and Spain in the spring of 1917, I found translations of the chief works of Dr. Marden on sale in all those countries, and with them the masterpieces of such other apostles of the New Thought as Ralph Waldo Trine and Elizabeth Towne.†   (source)
  • Is it possible that that player Shakespeare, a ghost by absence, and in the vesture of buried Denmark, a ghost by death, speaking his own words to his own son's name (had Hamnet Shakespeare lived he would have been prince Hamlet's twin), is it possible, I want to know, or probable that he did not draw or foresee the logical conclusion of those premises: you are the dispossessed son: I am the murdered father: your mother is the guilty queen, Ann Shakespeare, born Hathaway?†   (source)
  • Sir, said he, men calleth me Melias de Lile, and I am the son of the King of Denmark.†   (source)
  • Why, 'tis a loving and a fair reply: Be as ourself in Denmark.†   (source)
  • Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off, And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.†   (source)
  • Where is the beauteous majesty of Denmark?†   (source)
  • Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark.†   (source)
  • There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.†   (source)
  • Thy face is valanc'd since I saw thee last; comest thou to beard me in Denmark?†   (source)
  • Why, here in Denmark: I have been sexton here, man and boy, thirty years.†   (source)
  • A goodly one; in which there are many confines, wards, and dungeons, Denmark being one o' the worst.†   (source)
  • How can that be, when you have the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark?†   (source)
  • "I have already told thee, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "not to give thyself any uneasiness on that score; for if an island should fail, there is the kingdom of Denmark, or of Sobradisa, which will fit thee as a ring fits the finger, and all the more that, being on terra firma, thou wilt all the better enjoy thyself.†   (source)
  • AND as King Arthur rode to Camelot, and held there a great feast with mirth and joy, so soon after he returned unto Cardoile, and there came unto Arthur new tidings that the king of Denmark, and the king of Ireland that was his brother, and the king of the Vale, and the king of Soleise, and the king of the Isle of Longtains, all these five kings with a great host were entered into the land of King Arthur, and burnt and slew clean afore them, both cities and castles, that it was pity to…†   (source)
  • God help me so, I was to him as kind As any wife from Denmark unto Ind, And also true, and so was he to me: I pray to God that sits in majesty So bless his soule, for his mercy dear.†   (source)
  • As I was bound to England, I now behoved either to go with the caravan to Jerosaw, from thence west to Marva, and the gulph of Finland, and so by land or sea to Denmark; or else I must leave the caravan at a little town on the Dwina, and so to Archangel, where I was certain of shipping either to England, Holland, or Hamburgh.†   (source)
  • So three of them said they were of Gaul, and other three said they were of Ireland, and the other three said they were of Denmark.†   (source)
  • My tables,—meet it is I set it down, That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain; At least, I am sure, it may be so in Denmark: [Writing.†   (source)
  • The head is not more native to the heart, The hand more instrumental to the mouth, Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.†   (source)
  • What art thou, that usurp'st this time of night, Together with that fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march?†   (source)
  • It is not very strange; for my uncle is king of Denmark, and those that would make mouths at him while my father lived, give twenty, forty, fifty, a hundred ducats a-piece for his picture in little.†   (source)
  • Then if he says he loves you, It fits your wisdom so far to believe it As he in his particular act and place May give his saying deed; which is no further Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal.†   (source)
  • —Madam, come; This gentle and unforc'd accord of Hamlet Sits smiling to my heart: in grace whereof, No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell; And the king's rouse the heaven shall bruit again, Re-speaking earthly thunder.†   (source)
  • Dread my lord, Your leave and favour to return to France; From whence though willingly I came to Denmark, To show my duty in your coronation; Yet now, I must confess, that duty done, My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France, And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon.†   (source)
  • 'tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark Is by a forged process of my death Rankly abus'd; but know, thou noble youth, The serpent that did sting thy father's life Now wears his crown.†   (source)
  • Set me the stoups of wine upon that table,— If Hamlet give the first or second hit, Or quit in answer of the third exchange, Let all the battlements their ordnance fire; The king shall drink to Hamlet's better breath; And in the cup an union shall he throw, Richer than that which four successive kings In Denmark's crown have worn.†   (source)
  • A plain in Denmark.†   (source)
  • Denmark's a prison.†   (source)
  • …to find out them: had my desire; Finger'd their packet; and, in fine, withdrew To mine own room again: making so bold, My fears forgetting manners, to unseal Their grand commission; where I found, Horatio, O royal knavery! an exact command,— Larded with many several sorts of reasons, Importing Denmark's health, and England's too, With, ho! such bugs and goblins in my life,— That, on the supervise, no leisure bated, No, not to stay the grinding of the axe, My head should be struck off.†   (source)
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