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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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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

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

From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2011

A countryman of Goethe's, Paul Heyse, born in Berlin in 1830, two years before the great poet's death, was no less fortunate in the lot to which fate assigned him.

From A Divided Heart and Other Stories by Paul Heyse

The man Heyse, with his intense admiration of physical beauty, his love of nature, his utter disregard of conventionality, his keen insight into the uttermost corners of human hearts, looks out of every page.

From A Divided Heart and Other Stories by Paul Heyse

Evidently, Heyse was neither a great dramatist nor a great poet; and although he was a man of unquestionable power, he reached forty years of age without having made any permanent impression on his time.

From A Divided Heart and Other Stories by Paul Heyse

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