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Heyse

American  
[hahy-zuh] / ˈhaɪ zə /

noun

  1. Paul (Johann von) 1830–1914, German playwright, novelist, poet, and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1910.


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“We’re looking at where we can go from here,” Heyse said.

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2011

Jeff Heyse, spokesman for the Galveston Police Department, which is reviewing two of the unsolved murders, said he found it “interesting” that Bell wants immunity when he is already serving a life sentence.

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2011

It is no longer the Germany of Canon Schmid, of Auerbach, of Heyse, of the Lorelei and the simple musical concert and the happy family life.

From Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning by Egan, Maurice Francis

In fact, Heyse always forces us to feel what he wishes to tell us.

From A Divided Heart and Other Stories by Heyse, Paul

Heyse works in the spirit of a sculptor; he seizes upon some picturesque incident or situation, and chisels and polishes until all the effect which it is capable of producing has been extracted from it.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various

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