Elsass-Lothringen
Britishnoun
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A swell chance we'd have of landing the Guardian if we'd had the Elsass-Lothringen!
From White Ashes by Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson) Kennedy
I can well imagine that in making the appointments to the Rhenish Governing Board in 1816 the same procedure was adopted as at the organization of Elsass-Lothringen in 1871.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle by Kuno Francke
Good-will to England and to the Latin peoples, hostility to the Power which had torn Elsass-Lothringen from France--such was the policy of Gambetta.
From The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) by John Holland Rose
Metz, one of the three ancient bishoprics of imperial Lorraine, now forms a part of Elsass-Lothringen, where the German Emperor reigns as emperor and not merely as King of Prussia.
From The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
From this cross-road he could see the railway, where a line of freight-cars, drawn by a puffing locomotive, was passing—cars of all colours, marked on one end "Elsass-Lothringen," on the other "Alsace-Lorraine."
From Lorraine A romance by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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