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  • Aria's dad was an art history professor, and the family had spent the last two years in Iceland while he helped do research for a TV documentary on Scandinavian art.†   (source)
  • After nearly getting killed by a falling rock low on the Southwest Face, Petter Neby, the solo Norwegian climber, was already gone: he'd quietly left Base Camp one morning and returned to Scandinavia.†   (source)
  • The voice spoke German with a strong Scandinavian accent.†   (source)
  • In Scandinavian Christmas celebrations, for example, Christian and Old Norse customs are wedded even to this day.†   (source)
  • One time he got in an argument about Cuba with some friends of his, fellow Harvard professors, who said that the Scandinavian countries offered the best examples of how to provide both excellent public health and political freedom.†   (source)
  • By then he had seen all of the Balkans and most of Scandinavia and had visited the Florinese and the natives of Guilder and into Mother Russia and down step by step around the entire Mediterranean.†   (source)
  • Vee is voluptuous, Scandinavian fair, and in an unorthodox way, incredibly sexy.†   (source)
  • Why did Scandinavians-who scored high on the happiness scale-have one of the highest suicide rates in the world?†   (source)
  • Scandinavia?†   (source)
  • SCANDINAVIA   (source)
  • The few problems that did arise, it was asserted, were caused by "certain types," namely the rising numbers of poor Irish, German, and Scandinavian immigrants.†   (source)
  • It was an Earth shoe, one of those functional, sensible, unsexy, shallow-heeled and vaguely Scandinavian items of fad footwear, the shy, androgynous and countercultural shoe, unthreatening to the environment or the species, and he wondered why it looked so sinister.†   (source)
  • The far north of Scandinavia was The Icy Waste.†   (source)
  • The remaining northernmost areas of "Scandinavia" and "The Netherlands" were the lesser satellites; the impact of their destruction was not comparable to that of the lower compounds and the time element spared them.†   (source)
  • Her husband, Enrico, who was the head of the Scandinavian arm of an international biotech firm, had custody of Antonio, his sixteen-year-old son from his first marriage.†   (source)
  • Scandinavian sacks.†   (source)
  • Very few words came from the Scandinavian immigrants—gravlax, smorgasbord—but their speech heavily influenced the accents in Wisconsin and Minnesota.†   (source)
  • Said with a sparkle in her ice blue Scandinavian eyes.†   (source)
  • All this blond wood is from Scandinavia.†   (source)
  • I've sent tens of thousands of English and Scandinavian tourists to the Levant.†   (source)
  • That had produced a Scandinavian shout: "Ja, cobber!†   (source)
  • It looked like a Scandinavian airport.†   (source)
  • The water from his drinking fountain dripped from his fur, all over everything as he jumped up onto the expensive Scandinavian sofa between me and Harvey.†   (source)
  • There I thought you were Danish, or maybe Finnish, eastern Scandinavian.†   (source)
  • Through the comical spelling, eerie grammar, and devil-may-care punctuation a distinctive voice emerged, full of sweetness, despair, earnestness, love, and loneliness, all expressed in a graceful Scandinavian lilt.†   (source)
  • There were books on Eskimos, Scandinavians, dairy farms in 'Wisconsin, and the Japanese pearl divers, but I could find no books or information on rural blacks in the Yamacraw school library.†   (source)
  • Scandinavian passport perhaps.†   (source)
  • We'll need every contact we have in the clubs all over Scandinavia to keep their eyes peeled.†   (source)
  • His voice was deep and resonant, his accent vaguely German or Scandinavian.†   (source)
  • But, Comrades, you should not forget this early connection with Scandinavia.†   (source)
  • "Oh, for Christ's sake, Peters," said Leamas, suddenly angry, "the Royal Scandinavian.†   (source)
  • Leamas read the first letter: To the Manager, The Royal Scandinavian Bank Ltd., Copenhagen.†   (source)
  • He was a gigantic figure here in Scandinavia, marking the transition from the Baroque period to the Age of Enlightenment.†   (source)
  • On the face of it, this task should not have posed a significant challenge, as Scandinavian visitors were reasonably common at the Metropol.†   (source)
  • From there, waves of these Indo-European tribes began to wander southeast into Iran and India, southwest to Greece, Italy, and Spain, westward through Central Europe to France and Britain, northwestward to Scandinavia and northward to Eastern Europe and Russia.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, the Count could only cross his fingers that a Scandinavian man would be residing in the hotel at the critical juncture.†   (source)
  • The clientele of the east wing lobby was international, a mix of languages, of clothing from Fifth and Madison Avenues, Savile Row, St Honorfe and the Via Condotti, as well as the more sombre apparel of both Germanys and the Scandinavian countries.†   (source)
  • Medieval weapons and trinkets lined the shelves along with leather-bound books and photographs of Randolph at dig sites in Scandinavia.†   (source)
  • This furniture is a clunky imitation of the early Scandinavian furniture of ten or fifteen years ago, now drastically out of style.†   (source)
  • He rounded the corner as Benjamin interrupted, leaning wearily back in a chair: "Germany, the Netherlands, and the Scandinavian countries.†   (source)
  • Frigga and Helga, the Scandinavian selkies, were lumbering toward them from the lagoon in ground-shaking ripples as steam rose off their thick blubber.†   (source)
  • Studies in other parts of Eastern Europe and in Scandinavia from the 1930s through the 1960s reveal a similar trend.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, Zalachenko had heard the rumour of a "Red Jumper," a highly placed Swede—or possibly other Scandinavian politician—who worked for the KGB.†   (source)
  • The starlings, warblers, finches, and swallows had come from Northern Europe, the Baltic, and Scandinavia, and were about to cross to Africa, to the deserts and the savannahs, the Congo, and the Cape of Good Hope.†   (source)
  • It made me realize how much Sam must appreciate being able to be totally truthful with Amin I told Annabeth about Loki's escape and Sam's idea for tracking him down—about an icy harbor at the farthest borders of Jotunheim and Niflheim (or Scandinavia, whichever came first).†   (source)
  • The women were Scandinavian academics who thought that Italians were sexually repressed, and who thought they were alone.†   (source)
  • The Supreme Court gave voice to what the mothers in Romania and Scandinavia—and elsewhere—had long known: when a woman does not want to have a child, she usually has good reason.†   (source)
  • For the first time since he had run through the streets of Rome, from Orfeo's toilet stall in the Ministry of War to the train station, Alessandro saw women-not just the sullen German matrons who had stayed to tend livestock and little children, but a large number of army nurses and volunteers: not only Italian women, but French, English, American, and Scandinavian.†   (source)
  • There were relatively few full-fledged bars in that part of Flatbush (a puzzlement to me until Nathan pointed out that serious tippling does not rank high among Jewish pastimes), but this bar of ours did do a moderately brisk business, numbering among its predominately blue-collar clientele Irish doormen, Scandinavian cabdrivers, German building superintendents and WASPs of indeterminate status like myself who had somehow strayed into the faubourg.†   (source)
  • We must suppose that he was met in West Berlin, that on his short journeys abroad to Scandinavia and elsewhere he was contacted and interrogated.†   (source)
  • Among the papers before you there is the facsimile of a letter from the Royal Scandinavian Bank addressed to Robert Lang.†   (source)
  • Having completed his probationary period he undertook special tasks in Scandinavian countries—notably Norway, Sweden and Finland—where he succeeded in establishing an intelligence network which carried the battle against fascist agitators into the enemy's camp.†   (source)
  • The Service gave me a phony British passport; I went to the Royal Scandinavian Bank in Copenhagen and the National Bank of Finland in Helsinki, deposited the money and drew a passbook on a joint account—for me in my alias and for someone else—the agent I suppose in his alias.†   (source)
  • Yggdrasil, the World Tree (etching, Scandinavia, early nineteenth century A.D.).†   (source)
  • My attention was caught at once by the girl's extraordinary Scandinavian fairness.†   (source)
  • One of the more Scandinavian songs was called "The Boon of Life": Ky-yow replied: The boon of life is health.†   (source)
  • German or Scandinavian, he thought.†   (source)
  • Celtic bards went out to the courts of Christian Europe; Celtic themes were rehearsed by the pagan Scandinavian scalds.†   (source)
  • Here, with a Scandinavian conquest, had sprung up a wooden long-house—there, the original stones of the curtain wall had been pulled down to build a round tower for priests.†   (source)
  • Not a fiddler throughout the length and breadth of Scandinavia played as he did.†   (source)
  • Axel Egge's General Store, frequented by Scandinavian farmers.†   (source)
  • To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the King of Scandinavia.†   (source)
  • The face of Sondelius changed from curiosity to stolid Scandinavian wrath.†   (source)
  • Wasn't his nose a snub, like so many Scandinavians?†   (source)
  • His body, thanks to his Scandinavian stock, was fair as the fairest woman's.†   (source)
  • She'll be the first Scandinavian girl to get a position in the high school.†   (source)
  • The Scandinavians are sturdy and honest——†   (source)
  • "What you want?" screamed a Scandinavian voice.†   (source)
  • Knowing him, I review the old Scandinavian myths with clearer understanding.†   (source)
  • I do think the Scandinavians are the hardiest and best people——†   (source)
  • Bully people, these Scandinavian farmers.†   (source)
  • The Bohemian and Scandinavian girls could not get positions as teachers, because they had had no opportunity to learn the language.†   (source)
  • Ten minutes later they heard footsteps in the corridor—the stalwart stride of the fully cured Scandinavian, a walking advertisement for the climate and the sanatorium.†   (source)
  • Wheatsylvania was a "good location," he said: solid Scandinavian and Dutch and German and Bohemian farmers who paid their bills.†   (source)
  • Egstrom himself, a raw-boned, heavy Scandinavian, with a busy manner and immense blonde whiskers, went on directing his people, checking parcels, making out bills or writing letters at a stand-up desk in the shop, and comported himself in that clatter exactly as though he had been stone-deaf.†   (source)
  • She compared him with the two Englishmen, whom Abe addressed conscientiously as "Major Hengest and Mr. Horsa," and with the heir to a Scandinavian throne and the novelist just back from Russia, and with Abe, who was desperate and witty, and with Collis Clay, who joined them somewhere and stayed along—and felt there was no comparison.†   (source)
  • And here was Hegglund, before whom was standing a German or Scandinavian type, plump and pretty, her arms akimbo and her feet wide apart.†   (source)
  • The French and Bohemian boys were spirited and jolly, liked variety, and were as much predisposed to favor anything new as the Scandinavian boys were to reject it.†   (source)
  • The man addressed as Yonson, a man of the heavy Scandinavian type, ceased chafing me, and arose awkwardly to his feet.†   (source)
  • Hardly had my grandfather begun to question Swann about that orator when one of my grandmother's sisters, in whose ears the question echoed like a solemn but untimely silence which her natural politeness bade her interrupt, addressed the other with: "Just fancy, Flora, I met a young Swedish governess to-day who told me some most interesting things about the co-operative movement in Scandinavia.†   (source)
  • Possibly, I too shall take the train at that station, one day, and go and seek around thy lakes, O Norway, O silent Scandinavia, for the perhaps still living traces of Raoul and Christine and also of Mamma Valerius, who disappeared at the same time!†   (source)
  • The King of Scandinavia.†   (source)
  • They were sixteen in all: two runaway blue-jackets, a lanky deserter from a Yankee man-of-war, a couple of simple, blond Scandinavians, a mulatto of sorts, one bland Chinaman who cooked—and the rest of the nondescript spawn of the South Seas.†   (source)
  • I asked him what his nationality was and if that name of Erik did not point to his Scandinavian origin.†   (source)
  • He came from a town in Iowa where there were a great many Swedes, and could speak a little Swedish, which gave him a great advantage with the early Scandinavian settlers.†   (source)
  • …always a vicious assailant of what he considered slackness or lie or pomposity, never too kindly to well-intentioned stupidity, he worked in the laboratories of Koch, of Pasteur, he followed the early statements of Pearson in biometrics, he drank beer and wrote vitriolic letters, he voyaged to Italy and England and Scandinavia, and casually, between two days, he married (as he might have bought a coat or hired a housekeeper) the patient and wordless daughter of a Gentile merchant.†   (source)
  • Between gulps of the molten stuff I glanced down at my raw and bleeding chest and turned to the Scandinavian.†   (source)
  • To-day the best that a harassed Black Hawk merchant can hope for is to sell provisions and farm machinery and automobiles to the rich farms where that first crop of stalwart Bohemian and Scandinavian girls are now the mistresses.†   (source)
  • He returned to the country, wandering from fair to fair, strumming his Scandinavian melodies, while his child, who never left his side, listened to him in ecstasy or sang to his playing.†   (source)
  • The sailors, in the main, were English and Scandinavian, and their faces seemed of the heavy, stolid order.†   (source)
  • The Norbloms stared at each other, with long, bleached, cautious, Scandinavian stares, and grumbled that they "didn't KNOW—of course it was the finest location in town—"†   (source)
  • Sometimes Mamma Valerius would come and listen behind the door, wipe away a tear and go down-stairs again on tiptoe, sighing for her Scandinavian skies.†   (source)
  • I noted that the hunter, a huge Scandinavian sitting in the bow, held his rifle, ready to hand, across his knees.†   (source)
  • And I do admire the Scandinavian farmers down there so: their big red barns and silos and milking-machines and everything.†   (source)
  • Carol helped him weigh babies and examine their throats, and she wrote out the diets for mute German and Scandinavian mothers.†   (source)
  • The place was crowded with Scandinavian farmwives, standing aloof in shawls and ancient fawn-colored leg o' mutton jackets, awaiting the return of their lords.†   (source)
  • She remembered the feeble exotic quality to be found in the first-generation Scandinavians; she recalled the Norwegian Fair at the Lutheran Church, to which Bea had taken her.†   (source)
  • So it chanced that she was plotting against the peace of the Thanatopsis at her third meeting (which covered Scandinavian, Russian, and Polish Literature, with remarks by Mrs. Leonard Warren on the sinful paganism of the Russian so-called church).†   (source)
  • But she saw these Scandinavian women zealously exchanging their spiced puddings and red jackets for fried pork chops and congealed white blouses, trading the ancient Christmas hymns of the fjords for "She's My Jazzland Cutie," being Americanized into uniformity, and in less than a generation losing in the grayness whatever pleasant new customs they might have added to the life of the town.†   (source)
  • Look there, and wonder, impious young man, and admire these letters, the invention of the Scandinavian god!†   (source)
  • For the Normans being a mixed race, and better informed according to the information of the times, had lost most of the superstitious prejudices which their ancestors had brought from Scandinavia, and piqued themselves upon thinking freely on such topics.†   (source)
  • For though the harpooneers, with the great body of the crew, were a far more barbaric, heathenish, and motley set than any of the tame merchant-ship companies which my previous experiences had made me acquainted with, still I ascribed this—and rightly ascribed it—to the fierce uniqueness of the very nature of that wild Scandinavian vocation in which I had so abandonedly embarked.†   (source)
  • People had just emerged from Ossian; elegance was Scandinavian and Caledonian; the pure English style was only to prevail later, and the first of the Arthurs, Wellington, had but just won the battle of Waterloo.†   (source)
  • …the various governments not to have resisted sooner; and the liberals and radicals (the name as perhaps you may know of the more democratically inclined part of the ruling classes) were much blamed for having led the world to this pass by their mis-timed pedantry and foolish sentimentality: and one Gladstone, or Gledstein (probably, judging by this name, of Scandinavian descent), a notable politician of the nineteenth century, was especially singled out for reprobation in this respect.†   (source)
  • So that there are instances among them of men, who, named with Scripture names—a singularly common fashion on the island—and in childhood naturally imbibing the stately dramatic thee and thou of the Quaker idiom; still, from the audacious, daring, and boundless adventure of their subsequent lives, strangely blend with these unoutgrown peculiarities, a thousand bold dashes of character, not unworthy a Scandinavian sea-king, or a poetical Pagan Roman.†   (source)
  • That evening, after having forded two rivers full of trout and pike, called Alfa and Heta, we were obliged to spend the night in a deserted building worthy to be haunted by all the elfins of Scandinavia.†   (source)
  • I was forgetting where and who I was, to live the life of elves and sylphs, the fanciful creation of Scandinavian superstitions.†   (source)
  • Their costume consisted of a coarse jacket of black woollen cloth called in Scandinavian lands a 'vadmel,' a hat with a very broad brim, trousers with a narrow edge of red, and a bit of leather rolled round the foot for shoes.†   (source)
  • "Indeed!" replied M. Fridrikssen, "why we possess eight thousand volumes, many of them valuable and scarce, works in the old Scandinavian language, and we have all the novelties that Copenhagen sends us every year."†   (source)
  • /Scandinavian Studies and Notes/, vol. iv, no. 3, Aug. 1917, p. 258.†   (source)
  • In the same way the Scandinavians in the Northwest corrupt their native Swedish and Dano-Norwegian.†   (source)
  • The German and [Pg272] Scandinavian /Schmidt/ has undoubtedly contributed many a /Smith/, and /Braun/ many a /Brown/, and /Müller/ many a /Miller/.†   (source)
  • A philologist of Scandinavian extraction, Elias Molee, has gone so far as to argue that the acquisition of correct English, to a people grown so mongrel in blood as the Americans, has become a useless burden.†   (source)
  • [7] In the last-named city the influence of /Müller/, probably borrowed from the Pennsylvania Dutch, is plainly indicated, and in Chicago it is likely that there are also contributions from the Scandinavian /Möller/, the Polish /Jannszewski/ and the Bohemian /Mlinár/.†   (source)
  • [54] Henry Bradley, in The Making of English, pp. 54-5: "In the parts of England which were largely inhabited by Danes the native pronouns (/i. e./, /heo/, /his/, /heom/ and /heora/) were supplanted by the Scandinavian pronouns which are represented by the modern /she/, /they/, /them/ and /their/."†   (source)
  • In the same way /Johnson/, which holds first place among Chicago surnames, and /Anderson/, which holds third, are plainly reinforced from Scandinavian sources, and the former may also owe something to the Russian /Ivanof/.†   (source)
  • But there are at least quasi-dialects among the immigrants—the Irish, the German, the Scandinavian, the Italian, the Jewish, and so on—and these quasi-dialects undoubtedly leave occasional marks, not only upon the national vocabulary, but also upon the general speech habits of the country, as in the case, for example, of the pronunciation of /yes/, already mentioned, and in that of the substitution of the diphthong /oi/ for the /ur-/sound in such words as /world/, /journal/ and…†   (source)
  • Just as the Scotch and the Welsh have invaded England, elbowing out the actual English to make room for themselves, so the Irish, the Germans, the Italians, the Scandinavians and the Jews of Eastern Europe, and in some areas, the French, the Slavs and the hybrid-Spaniards have elbowed out the descendants of the first colonists.†   (source)
  • I see the places of the sagas, I see pine-trees and fir-trees torn by northern blasts, I see granite bowlders and cliffs, I see green meadows and lakes, I see the burial-cairns of Scandinavian warriors, I see them raised high with stones by the marge of restless oceans, that the dead men's spirits when they wearied of their quiet graves might rise up through the mounds and gaze on the tossing billows, and be refresh'd by storms, immensity, liberty, action.†   (source)
  • …mound-raiser on the Mississippi, served those whose relics remain in Central America, Served Albic temples in woods or on plains, with unhewn pillars and the druids, Served the artificial clefts, vast, high, silent, on the snow-cover'd hills of Scandinavia, Served those who time out of mind made on the granite walls rough sketches of the sun, moon, stars, ships, ocean waves, Served the paths of the irruptions of the Goths, served the pastoral tribes and nomads, Served the long distant…†   (source)
  • With Antecedents 1 With antecedents, With my fathers and mothers and the accumulations of past ages, With all which, had it not been, I would not now be here, as I am, With Egypt, India, Phenicia, Greece and Rome, With the Kelt, the Scandinavian, the Alb and the Saxon, With antique maritime ventures, laws, artisanship, wars and journeys, With the poet, the skald, the saga, the myth, and the oracle, With the sale of slaves, with enthusiasts, with the troubadour, the crusader, and the…†   (source)
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