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  • Piece by piece he was assembling the costly treasures for its furnishing — fine hand-turned bedsteads and chests and chairs from the skilled Wethersfield joiner, Peter Blinn, glossy pewter plates and a set of silver spoons from Boston, real china bowls of blue and white Delft from Holland.   (source)
    Holland = the Netherlands
  • No, Rabbi, six million in Poland and Germany and Holland and France and ...   (source)
    Holland = Informal reference to the Netherlands (confusion arises because important provinces in the Netherlands are North Holland and South Holland).
  • 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
  • ...there's probably not a more comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam. No, in all of Holland.   (source)
    Holland = informal reference to the Netherlands
  • Holland and Belgium fell.   (source)
    Holland = Informal reference to the Netherlands (confusion arises because important provinces in the Netherlands are North Holland and South Holland).
  • People in a place called Holland do.   (source)
  • Usually it was fog in January in Holland, dank, chill, and gray.   (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)
  • 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)
  • In reality, the change would have occurred only on the mirrored hard drive in Holland.   (source)
  • Ads have been banned from children's television programming in Norway, Belgium, Ireland, and Holland.   (source)
    Holland = the Netherlands
  • In June 2007, after two weeks with his family, Adam was off again, this time to Holland for training in specialized fighting techniques.   (source)
    Holland = Informal reference to the Netherlands (confusion arises because important provinces in the Netherlands are North Holland and South Holland).
  • Tourist buses, from Holland, from Denmark, from Germany, stood in the square before the cathedral.   (source)
  • Indeed, some traffickers believe that trafficking girls into Sweden is no longer profitable and that girls should be taken to Holland instead.   (source)
  • Louis, a native of Holland, a well-known violinist.   (source)
  • His little Navy was scattered all over after the Germans took Holland.   (source)
  • In Holland I went to VAM, a waste treatment plant that handles a million tons of garbage a year.   (source)
    Holland = informal reference to the Netherlands
  • White parachuted into Normandy the night before D-Day and later into Holland.   (source)
    Holland = Informal reference to the Netherlands (confusion arises because important provinces in the Netherlands are North Holland and South Holland).
  • 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.   (source)
  • I understand she married a very nice gentleman from Holland.   (source)
  • On June 1 the Oswalds board a train from Moscow to Holland.   (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)
  • France, and Spain, and Sweden—or maybe 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)
  • It was flying to Holland to end the war.   (source)
  • Holland, until overwhelmed by debt and taxes, led and participated in European wars.   (source)
  • One woman phoned from Holland to say she and her husband had swum around the room together.   (source)
  • I knew Holland well; my father had a machine tool agency at Leiden; I'd lived there for nine years.   (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)
  • 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)
  • Various fellows have already got into Holland.   (source)
  • FIGURE 44: The Return of the Prodigal (oil on canvas, Holland, A.D. 1662).   (source)
  • Usually works with a woman-Gracie Kidd; but she doesn't seem to be in it this time-unless she's got off to Holland with the rest of the swag.'   (source)
  • Throughout history, says Tolstoy, there has been an endless series of these "epidemic suggestions"—for example, the Crusades, the search for the Philosopher's Stone, the craze for tulip growing which once swept over Holland, and so on and so forth.   (source)
  • Dr. Van Helsing must be a good man as well as a clever one if he is Arthur's friend and Dr. Seward's, and if they brought him all the way from Holland to look after Lucy.   (source)
  • Sir, to form an Administration of this scale and complexity is a serious undertaking in itself, but it must be remembered that we are in the preliminary stage of one of the greatest battles in history, that we are in action at many points in Norway and in Holland, that we have to be prepared in the Mediterranean, that the air battle is continuous and that many preparations have to be made here at home.   (source)
  • The young scholastic, having received the four minor orders—doorkeeper, acolyte, lector, and exorcist—and having sworn his "simple" vows, admitting him at last into the Society, now departed for the Jesuit college at Falkenburg in Holland to begin his theological studies.   (source)
  • Plots without end were hatched in England, in Belgium, in Holland, to try and induce some great power to send troops into revolutionary Paris, to free King Louis, and to summarily hang the bloodthirsty leaders of that monster republic.   (source)
  • There were telegrams to the national office from enthusiastic individuals in little towns which had made amazing and unprecedented increases in a single year: Benedict, Kansas, from 26 to 260; Henderson, Kentucky, from 19 to 111; Holland, Michigan, from 14 to 208; Cleo, Oklahoma, from 0 to 104; Martin's Ferry, Ohio, from 0 to 296—and many more of the same kind.   (source)
  • After spending some time in Antwerp, we were invited to go with a part of a half-dozen persons on a trip through Holland.   (source)
  • And as he had decided that the importance which Odette attached to receiving cards tot a private view was not in itself any more ridiculous than the pleasure which he himself had at one time felt in going to luncheon with the Prince of Wales, so he did not think that the admiration which she professed for Monte-Carlo or for the Righi was any more unreasonable than his own liking for Holland (which she imagined as ugly) and for Versailles (which bored her to tears).   (source)
  • It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of my little problems.   (source)
  • So their songs conquered till they sang across the land and across the sea, before Queen and Kaiser, in Scotland and Ireland, Holland and Switzerland.   (source)
  • Phileas Fogg returned to the hotel, begged a moment's conversation with Aouda, and without more ado, apprised her that Jeejeeh was no longer at Hong Kong, but probably in Holland.   (source)
  • Tom examined the turnips and the lettuce with interest, and asked what they were, and if they were to be eaten; for it was only recently that men had begun to raise these things in England in place of importing them as luxuries from Holland.   (source)
  • All earnestly expressed by their features that their minds did not wander to Holland for a moment on account of this statement, but were deploring the difference which gave rise to the figure; and Mark Clark cried "Hear, hear; just what I should ha' said."   (source)
  • We believe that he had simply studied in Holland for an inn-keeper.   (source)
  • He was come back from Holland; he was at Mudport again, unknown to any of his friends, and had written to her from that place, enclosing the letter to a person whom he trusted in St. Ogg's.   (source)
  • He lounged through Belgium and Holland and the Rhineland, through Switzerland and Northern Italy, planning about nothing, but seeing everything.   (source)
  • This will has already constituted Haidee heiress of the rest of my fortune, consisting of lands, funds in England, Austria, and Holland, furniture in my different palaces and houses, and which without the twenty millions and the legacies to my servants, may still amount to sixty millions.   (source)
  • Beyond Cologne we descended to the plains of Holland; and we resolved to post the remainder of our way, for the wind was contrary and the stream of the river was too gentle to aid us.   (source)
  • Our course for the first four days was, with trifling variations, S.E. and by S.; and we must have run down the coast of New Holland.   (source)
  • They emigrated to Holland, and settled in the city of Leyden in 1610, where they abode, being lovingly respected by the Dutch, for many years: they left it in 1620 for several reasons, the last of which was, that their posterity would in a few generations become Dutch, and so lose their interest in the English nation; they being desirous rather to enlarge His Majesty's dominions, and to live under their natural prince.   (source)
  • On his decease, the business was continued by his widow, who, being born and bred in Holland, where, as I have been inform'd, the knowledge of accounts makes a part of female education, she not only sent me as clear a state as she could find of the transactions past, but continued to account with the greatest regularity and exactness every quarter afterwards, and managed the business with such success, that she not only brought up reputably a family of children, but, at the expiration of the term, was able to purchase of me the printing-house, and establish her son in it.   (source)
  • Holland without a king hath enjoyed more peace for this last century than any of the monarchial governments in Europe.   (source)
  • High on the wall behind Mr. Curtain's desk, in a heavy silver frame, hung an old map of Holland   (source)
    Holland = the Netherlands
  • In short, Holland looked like Indianapolis, only with smaller cars.   (source)
    Holland = Informal reference to the Netherlands
  • I was born in Holland, you see — an orphan like yourself.   (source)
    Holland = the Netherlands
  • She either moved to Holland with the Dutch Tulip Man or didn't.   (source)
    Holland = Informal reference to the Netherlands
  • When his parents died, he was sent here from Holland to live with his aunt.   (source)
    Holland = the Netherlands
  • ConAgra's Lamb Weston division now manufactures frozen french fries in Holland, India, and Turkey.   (source)
  • Holland, maybe.   (source)
  • Some Van Houtens moved to the United States long ago, and Peter is of those, but he moved to Holland after his novel.   (source)
    Holland = Informal reference to the Netherlands
  • I don't miss my childhood, but I do, on occasion, miss Holland, a country with an admirable tradition.   (source)
    Holland = the Netherlands
  • 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
  • Your map of Holland, sir?   (source)
    Holland = the Netherlands
  • 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
  • Now it's not just the Jews, but Holland and all of occupied Europe.   (source)
    Holland = Informal reference to the Netherlands (confusion arises because important provinces in the Netherlands are North Holland and South Holland).
  • It was Sunday, May 10, 1942, exactly two years after the fall of Holland.   (source)
  • Japan held some 132,000 POWs from America, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Holland, and Australia.   (source)
  • They've published maps of Holland with the potential flood areas marked.   (source)
  • Maybe we would still be in Holland when liberation came.   (source)
  • They ended with the national anthems of England, Holland, and the United States.   (source)
  • The Christians in Holland are also living in fear because their sons are being sent to Germany.   (source)
  • FOR FIVE DAYS Holland held out against the invader.   (source)
  • All of Holland is being punished for the workers' strikes.   (source)
  • How easy it would be, back in Holland, to get another—a hundred others.   (source)
  • THE SECOND WEEK in May the Allies retook Holland.   (source)
  • She used words like "soon, when I'm back in Holland,"   (source)
  • Holland would have become German, and that would have been the end of that!   (source)
  • One glorious, nippy November day when all of Holland was singing with me, the doorbell rang.   (source)
  • Mussert has announced that if the invasion reaches Holland, he'll enlist.   (source)
  • Only a few people—like Willem—insisted that the war was Holland's tragedy too.   (source)
  • I was only too eager to tell Mr. Moorman and all Holland how Jan Vogel had betrayed his country.   (source)
  • Surely the invasion of Holland had begun!   (source)
  • Then we were all singing together, the full voice of Holland singing her forbidden anthem.   (source)
  • Holland's neutrality would be respected.   (source)
  • "I was to Holland once," he said, voice wistful with recollection.   (source)
  • Three years after Mama's death, I became the first licensed woman watchmaker in Holland.   (source)
  • Oh Corrie, it's the happiest home in Holland!   (source)
  • That was one thing the occupation had done for Holland; churches were packed.   (source)
  • One question ached through all of Holland like a long-held breath: would there be war?   (source)
  • Here in neutral Holland one sunlit June day followed another.   (source)
  • During the first year of German rule, there were only minor attacks on Jews in Holland.   (source)
  • I traveled all over Holland, to other parts of Europe, to the United States.   (source)
  • I looked at my sister kneeling beside me in the light of burning Holland.   (source)
  • We knew, of course, that there was an underground in Holland—or suspected it.   (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)
  • During the night before Christmas Eve, winter took hold of Holland and clenched its fist.   (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)
  • And that we plan to pay our debts to France and Holland with militiamen instead of money.   (source)
  • As America faced the challenge of a continental wilderness, Holland faced the North Sea.   (source)
  • He was reconciled to the idea that he might be the last good man to leave Holland.   (source)
  • Holland would buy and transport British goods to our markets.   (source)
  • The computer instantly began copying Armansky's hard drive to the server in Holland.   (source)
  • Madame de Lafayette had escaped to Holland.   (source)
  • The icon MikBlom/laptop was still on the server in Holland.   (source)
  • The couple escaped across the Rhine, under German fire, shortly before Holland was liberated.   (source)
  • In Holland, flights of German fighters would be taking off.   (source)
  • Adams's part in Holland and at Paris had been profound.   (source)
  • She believed he'd rescued her, saved her life, even, getting her out of Holland.   (source)
  • HOLLAND 1945 On the morning of 5th January, Tamar sat at the kitchen table of Sanctuary Farm.   (source)
  • HOLLAND 1945 Dart awoke on Sunday 18th March with a brain as busy as a pit of snakes.   (source)
  • SS Lieutenant General Hanns Albin Rauter, head of internal security for Holland, was unhappy.   (source)
  • Some in Holland, well, it would be like an insult maybe.   (source)
  • Are you saying, sir, that there will be no effort to liberate the rest of Holland?   (source)
  • HOLLAND 1945 Things happened so fast and so close together that they seemed like one thing.   (source)
  • The next time I was in Holland I put an advert in a few newspapers.   (source)
  • I've used the terms Holland and the Netherlands as though they mean the same thing.   (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)
  • "One way or another," he said, "we'll be in Holland soon."   (source)
  • We've just killed the top Nazi in Holland.   (source)
  • You'll both be in Holland in less than a week.   (source)
  • He walked out of the room, the rather shuffling walk he had affected since arriving in Holland.   (source)
  • We never expected you to bring me here—Holland, yes—but not here.   (source)
  • At Leiden in Holland in my father's workshop, with some Dutch friends.   (source)
  • In forty-one they dropped me into Holland and I stayed there nearly two years.   (source)
  • We would have been content with Peters' report from Holland.   (source)
  • They delivered it broken down, packed in several boxes that were unloaded along with the Viennese furniture, the Bohemian crystal, the table service from the Indies Company, the tablecloths from Holland, and a rich variety of lamps and candlesticks, hangings and drapes.   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • If it's that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them?   (source)
  • And if they ever carry out this terrible threat, the meager handful of Jews still left in Holland will have to go.   (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)
  • Their line of reasoning boils down to this: England must fight, struggle and sacrifice its sons to liberate Holland and the other occupied countries.   (source)
  • The Germans are capable of herding the entire population of Holland into Germany, where they'll all die.   (source)
  • Things have gotten so bad in Holland that hordes of children stop passersby in the streets to beg for a piece of bread.   (source)
  • They were granted the right to asylum in Holland, but once Hitler is gone, they should go back to Germany.   (source)
  • In the summer of 1940 we didn't do much for my birthday either, since the fighting had just ended in Holland.   (source)
  • What would have become of Holland and its neighbors if England had signed a peace treaty with Germany, as it's had ample opportunity to do?   (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)
  • Every night hundreds of planes pass over Holland on their way to German cities, to sow their bombs on German soil.   (source)
  • It's being said in underground circles that the German Jews who immigrated to Holland before the war and have now been sent to Poland shouldn't be allowed to return here.   (source)
  • The province of Utrecht will be cleansed of Jews [as if they were cockroaches] between April 1 and May 1, and the provinces of North and South Holland between May 1 and June 1.   (source)
  • Because we're Jewish, my father immigrated to Holland in 1933, when he became the Managing Director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which manufactures products used in making jam.   (source)
  • Contrary to my usual practice, I'm going to write you a detailed description of the food situation, since it's become a matter of some difficulty and importance, not only here in the Annex, but in all of Holland, all of Europe and even beyond.   (source)
  • The bus stopped in front of a new, functional building; word was whispered back that this was Gestapo headquarters for all of Holland.   (source)
  • After that the British shouldn't remain in Holland: they should offer their most abject apologies to all the occupied countries, restore the Dutch East Indies to its rightful owner and then return, weakened and impoverished, to England.   (source)
  • And so I searched, but with a sinking heart: in this winter of Holland's hunger, all my searching brought not one single cat or dog to my call.   (source)
  • The papers are full of invasion news and are driving everyone insane with such statements as: "In the event of a British landing in Holland, the Germans will do what they can to defend the country, even flooding it, if necessary."   (source)
  • Germans frequently came to work under Father for a while, for his reputation reached even beyond Holland.   (source)
  • It was still occupied Holland, German soldiers still stood at intervals along the tracks—but it was home.   (source)
  • We don't know how many people are actually in hiding; of course, the number is relatively small compared to the general population, but later on we'll no doubt be astonished at how many good people in Holland were willing to take Jews and Christians, with or without money, into their homes.   (source)
  • No one can see farther than the end of their nose, no one gives a thought to the fact that the British are fighting for their own country and their own people; everyone thinks it's England's duty to save Holland, as quickly as possible.   (source)
  • I knew her by sight: Mrs. Bierens de Haan whose home in the suburb of Bloemendaal was said to be one of the most beautiful in Holland.   (source)
  • AND WHILE HAARLEM and the rest of Holland strolled and bowed and swept its steps, the neighbors on our east geared for war.   (source)
  • I can safely say that all of Amsterdam, all of Holland, in fact the entire western coast of Europe, all the way down to Spain, are talking about the invasion day and night, debating, making bets and ...hoping.   (source)
  • I love Holland.   (source)
  • In actuality the Beje was the center of an underground ring that spread now to the farthest corners of Holland.   (source)
  • It was colder in Poland than in Holland; these Polish women probably were not feeling the chill the way we were.   (source)
  • Holland in 1914, like the rest of Europe, was mobilizing for war, and the streets of Haarlem were suddenly filled with young men in uniform.   (source)
  • Instead of the big house in Holland?   (source)
  • Not all had been in concentration camps; some had spent two, three, even four years hidden in attic rooms and back closets here in Holland.   (source)
  • Indeed it was a puzzle to us why he had come to Holland, for he found nothing but fault with Dutch people and products.   (source)
  • She loved the people she saw in the street—and beyond: her love took in the city, the land of Holland, the world.   (source)
  • There was the high bench over which Father had bent for so many years, doing the delicate, painstaking work that was known as the finest in Holland.   (source)
  • For Holland's battle has just begun.   (source)
  • The National Socialist Bond, the quisling organization of Holland, grew larger and bolder with each month of occupation.   (source)
  • They were a very old Dutch family: the portraits on the walls could have been a textbook of Holland's history.   (source)
  • They had heard of my rehabilitation work in Holland, he said, and they wondered—I was opening my mouth to say that I had no professional training in such things, when his next words silenced me.   (source)
  • And always at these meetings I spoke of Betsie's first vision: of a home here in Holland where those who had been hurt could learn to live again unafraid.   (source)
  • She dozed fitfully during the day and night that followed, waking several times with the excitement of some new detail about our work in Holland or Germany.   (source)
  • In the first room she wrote the flaming Christian tracts for which she was known all over Holland, and in the second received the well-to-do ladies who supported this work.   (source)
  • There were now fourteen hundred quartered here with more arriving weekly as concentration camps in Poland, France, Belgium, Austria, as well as Holland were evacuated toward the center of Germany.   (source)
  • After less than a year as assistant to a minister in Uithuizen, he had been given a church of his own in Brabant, the beautiful rural southern part of Holland.   (source)
  • No one else in Holland has tea.   (source)
  • There could have been no one in all Holland less informed about marriage than Tante Anna, but this was ritual: the older woman counseling the younger one down through the centuries—one could no more have gotten married without it than one could have dispensed with the ring.   (source)
  • Short, immensely fat, head bald as a Holland cheese, he was so wall-eyed that you were never quite sure whether he was looking at you or someone else—and as kind and generous as he was fearsome to look at.   (source)
  • But how could we know, how in the Holland of 1939 could we have guessed, that it was not in the shop where we could observe him but in the streets and alleys outside that Otto was subjecting Christoffels to a very real, small persecution.   (source)
  • I was in Holland.   (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)
  • Minor nations were assigned targets and times, too—but were told that not more than 20 percent of these targets would be hit—partly shortage of steel but also frightfulness: if Belgium was hit first time around, Holland might decide to protect her polders by dealing out before Luna was again high in her sky.   (source)
  • We call several countries "republics," but they are not: In Holland, none of its supreme authority comes from the people.   (source)
  • He says Germany is "more imperfect than Holland and Switzerland ...Greece was undone," he adds, "as soon as the king of Macedon obtained a seat among the Amphictyons."   (source)
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  • At least that's what Mrs. Holland was always telling us last year, when we studied U.S. History.   (source)
    holland = untracked name in this novel
  • 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)
    holland = a person's name
  • The Holland Tunnel.   (source)
    holland = a tunnel connecting New York City with Jersey City
  • 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)
    holland = a tunnel that connects New York City to Jersey City
  • "Are you going to tell me now where we're going?" she asked when we exited the Holland Tunnel.   (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)
    holland = part of a company name
  • My pallbearers are: Harvey Moss, Duane Thomas, Steve Holland, Billy Bowles, Mike Mills, and Walter Robinson.   (source)
    holland = a person's name
  • Gazing upward at the red, white, and blue speck, Forrestal remarked to Smith: "Holland, the raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next five hundred years."   (source)
    holland = untracked name in this book
  • 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)
    holland = tunnel connecting New York City to Jersey City
  • 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)
    holland = untracked name in this novel
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  • 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)
    holland = a tunnel connecting New York City and Jersey City
  • And those who were guiltless of the cruel invasion came in behind them and bought from the Holland Land Office with honest cash, nursed what remained of the Indian nations, the old ones, the drunk and spineless, too sick of body and soul for defiance, much less flight, and they possessed the milk-and-honey land and were known for highborn saints.   (source)
    holland = untracked name in this novel
  • There was an institution in my day called a 'sketching club'—mixed sexes" (snuffle), "bicycles" (snuffle), "pepper-and-salt knickerbockers, holland umbrellas, and, it was popularly thought, free love" (snuffle), "such a lot of nonsense.   (source)
    holland = a type of umbrella
  • There was a knight once called Reynaud de Roy, who had a tilting match with another one called John de Holland.   (source)
    holland = untracked name in this novel
  • The windows were large and easily opened, with the best catches and cords, and Holland roller-shades guaranteed not to crack.   (source)
    holland = a type of shade
  • A handsome carriage, drawn by a sleek pair of New Holland horses, carried Phileas Fogg and Aouda into the midst of rows of palms with brilliant foliage, and of clove-trees, whereof the cloves form the heart of a half-open flower.   (source)
    holland = a type of horse
  • Seen by the dim light of the dips, their number to me appeared countless, though not in reality exceeding eighty; they were uniformly dressed in brown stuff frocks of quaint fashion, and long holland pinafores.   (source)
    holland = a type of strong, plain-weave linen fabric
  • Seeing this the Mayor took his hat, and when the waiter had helped him on with a thin holland overcoat, went out and stood under the portico.   (source)
  • They aren't the best sheets, but they're good enough for anybody to sleep in, be he who he will; for as for them best Holland sheets, I should repent buying 'em, only they'll do to lay us out in.   (source)
  • She only asked, however, to put on the cover, to case herself again in brown holland, but she wished to resist her excitement, and the attitude of devotion, which she kept for some time, seemed to help her to be still.   (source)
  • In short, this ancient and learned Low Dutch book treated of the commerce of Holland; and, among other subjects, contained a very interesting account of its whale fishery.   (source)
    holland = untracked in this book
  • They were discovered in New Holland, by the great Captain Cook, and I congratulate you on being the first to obtain a specimen in New Switzerland!'   (source)
    holland = untracked name in this novel
  • She had no suspicion that the love vanished from her life was there, palpitating by her side, beneath that coarse holland shirt, in that youthful heart open to the emanations of her beauty.   (source)
    holland = a type of strong, plain-weave linen fabric
  • His old brown holland was good enough when he stayed at home.   (source)
  • Chesney Wold is shut up, carpets are rolled into great scrolls in corners of comfortless rooms, bright damask does penance in brown holland, carving and gilding puts on mortification, and the Dedlock ancestors retire from the light of day again.   (source)
  • My pallbearers are: Harvey Moss, Duane Thomas, Steve Holland, Billy Bowles, Mike Mills, and Walter Robinson.   (source)
    holland = a person's name
  • Says Holland Smith, 'How can men like that ever be defeated?   (source)
    holland = untracked name in this book
  • It was in the early 1920's that a veteran Marine officer of World War I by the name of Holland M. Smith (nickname: "Howlin' Mad") assembled a team of officers to reconceive the Marines' mission.   (source)
  • This was tempered a bit by General Holland M. Smith's somber front-page quote that made plain the scale of the bloodletting: "The fight is the toughest we've run across in 168 years."   (source)
  • When John of Holland's spear point struck it, it simply fell off.   (source)
    holland = untracked name in this novel
  • His first idea had been to take them to his father's house in Winchester Square, a large, dull mansion which at this period of the year was shrouded in silence and brown holland; but he bethought himself that, the cook being at Gardencourt, there was no one in the house to get them their meals, and Pratt's Hotel accordingly became their resting-place.   (source)
    holland = a type of strong, plain-weave linen fabric
  • Mr. Rochester drew back the thick curtain, drew up the holland blind, let in all the daylight he could; and I was surprised and cheered to see how far dawn was advanced: what rosy streaks were beginning to brighten the east.   (source)
  • And as for the linen, I shall look out what's serviceable, to make a present of to my nephey; I've got cloth as has never been whitened, better worth having than other people's fine holland; and I hope he'll lie down in it and think of his aunt.   (source)
  • Henchard stood without the inn for a few instants; then lowering the dignity of his presence as much as possible by buttoning the brown holland coat over his shirt-front, and in other ways toning himself down to his ordinary everyday appearance, he entered the inn door.   (source)
  • My second daughter, Augusta, went with her mama to visit the school, and on her return she exclaimed: 'Oh, dear papa, how quiet and plain all the girls at Lowood look, with their hair combed behind their ears, and their long pinafores, and those little holland pockets outside their frocks — they are almost like poor people's children!   (source)
  • If Mr. Tulliver had been a susceptible man in his conjugal relation, he might have supposed that she drew out the key to aid her imagination in anticipating the moment when he would be in a state to justify the production of the best Holland sheets.   (source)
  • Already, at twelve o'clock, Mrs. Tulliver had on her visiting costume, with a protective apparatus of brown holland, as if she had been a piece of satin furniture in danger of flies; Maggie was frowning and twisting her shoulders, that she might if possible shrink away from the prickliest of tuckers, while her mother was remonstrating, "Don't, Maggie, my dear; don't make yourself so ugly!" and Tom's cheeks were looking particularly brilliant as a relief to hi   (source)
  • Ranged on benches down the sides of the room, the eighty girls sat motionless and erect; a quaint assemblage they appeared, all with plain locks combed from their faces, not a curl visible; in brown dresses, made high and surrounded by a narrow tucker about the throat, with little pockets of holland (shaped something like a Highlander's purse) tied in front of their frocks, and destined to serve the purpose of a work-bag: all, too, wearing woollen stockings and country-made shoes, fastened with brass buckles.   (source)
  • Perhaps the only formal whaling code authorized by legislative enactment, was that of Holland.   (source)
    holland = untracked in this book
  • The great glass over the mantelpiece, faced by the other great console glass at the opposite end of the room, increased and multiplied between them the brown Holland bag in which the chandelier hung, until you saw these brown Holland bags fading away in endless perspectives, and this apartment of Miss Osborne's seemed the centre of a system of drawing-rooms.   (source)
    holland = a type of strong, plain-weave linen fabric
  • HOLLAND'S PLUTARCH'S MORALS.   (source)
    holland = untracked in this book
  • The turkey carpet has rolled itself up, and retired sulkily under the sideboard: the pictures have hidden their faces behind old sheets of brown paper: the ceiling lamp is muffled up in a dismal sack of brown holland: the window-curtains have disappeared under all sorts of shabby envelopes: the marble bust of Sir Walpole Crawley is looking from its black corner at the bare boards and the oiled fire-irons, and the empty card-racks over the mantelpiece: the cellaret has lurked away behind the carpet: the chairs are turned up heads and tails along the walls: and in the dark corner opposite the statue, is an old-fashioned crabbed knife-box, locked and sitting on a dumb waiter.   (source)
    holland = a type of strong, plain-weave linen fabric
  • As its name imports (smeer, fat; berg, to put up), this village was founded in order to afford a place for the blubber of the Dutch whale fleet to be tried out, without being taken home to Holland for that purpose.   (source)
    holland = untracked in this book
  • HOLLAND'S PLINY.   (source)
  • And there seems no reason to doubt that if these elephants, which have now been hunted for thousands of years, by Semiramis, by Porus, by Hannibal, and by all the successive monarchs of the East—if they still survive there in great numbers, much more may the great whale outlast all hunting, since he has a pasture to expatiate in, which is precisely twice as large as all Asia, both Americas, Europe and Africa, New Holland, and all the Isles of the sea combined.   (source)
  • The great hatch is scrubbed and placed upon the try-works, completely hiding the pots; every cask is out of sight; all tackles are coiled in unseen nooks; and when by the combined and simultaneous industry of almost the entire ship's company, the whole of this conscientious duty is at last concluded, then the crew themselves proceed to their own ablutions; shift themselves from top to toe; and finally issue to the immaculate deck, fresh and all aglow, as bridegrooms new-leaped from out the daintiest Holland.   (source)
  • To wash his soiled hands with a partially consumed tablet of Barrington's lemonflavoured soap, to which paper still adhered, (bought thirteen hours previously for fourpence and still unpaid for), in fresh cold neverchanging everchanging water and dry them, face and hands, in a long redbordered holland cloth passed over a wooden revolving roller.   (source)
    holland = a type of strong, plain-weave linen fabric
  • Thus, /Oxford/ street, London, becomes the /Bayswater/ road, /High/ street, /Holland Park/ avenue, /Goldhawke/ road and finally the /Oxford/ road to the westward, and /High Holborn/, /Holborn/ viaduct, /Newgate/ street, /Cheapside/, the /Poultry/, /Cornhill/ and /Leadenhall/ street to the eastward.   (source)
    holland = untracked name in this book
  • What damask breeches make for thee; What fine long holland cloaks!   (source)
    holland = a type of strong, plain-weave linen fabric
  • A reaping-hook fits my hand better than a governor's sceptre; I'd rather have my fill of gazpacho' than be subject to the misery of a meddling doctor who me with hunger, and I'd rather lie in summer under the shade of an oak, and in winter wrap myself in a double sheepskin jacket in freedom, than go to bed between holland sheets and dress in sables under the restraint of a government.   (source)
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