East Prussian
Britishadjective
noun
Example Sentences
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Five years earlier, Günter Grass had published “Crabwalk,” a fictionalized account of the 1945 sinking of a ship bearing thousands of East Prussian refugees.
From New York Times • May 25, 2018
Topel had wanted to be a priest ever since he was a six-year-old growing up in Bozeman, Mont., the fourth son of an East Prussian tailor who had immigrated to America in 1878.
From Time Magazine Archive
The son of a rabbi, he was born in the former East Prussian capital of Konigsberg, educated in Britain, and served for a decade as Ireland's chief rabbi before coming to the U.S. in 1958.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were evidence to one East Prussian farmer that "an age has come to its end," because the moral sanctions by which until then men had lived had lost all meaning.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not of course in the abundant East Prussian way, the way of generous curves and of what he now began to think were after all superfluities, but with delicacy and restraint.
From The Pastor's Wife by Arnim, Elizabeth von
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