Kristiania
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Smart international yachting folk who have sailed up the pine-fringed Kristiania Fjord to the capital of Norway, Oslo, will remember Castle Oskarshal.
From Time Magazine Archive
The man is a young Norwegian writer of the last century who lives alone in Kristiania and suffers the fearful anguish of alienation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fruen would have had plenty of time to get to Kristiania herself by the day the Captain had written his card; she had not, it seemed—she had gone somewhere else.
From Wanderers by Worster, W. J. Alexander (William John Alexander)
Manly, of the University of Chicago, and to the authorities of the University library in Kristiania for their unfailing courtesy.
From An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway by Ruud, Martin Brown
Ett och annat on Henrik Ibsen och Kristiania teater.
From Henrik Ibsen A Bibliography of Criticism and Biography with an Index to Characters by Firkins, Ina Ten Eyck
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