Memel
Americannoun
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the German name for Klaipeda
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the lower course of the Neman River
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She sent the itinerant Sophia, it is clear as day, from Memel into Saxony, simply on a marriage speculation, and attained her purpose fully.
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He was born, as became his warlike soul, at the fortress of Memel, on the Baltic Sea.
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Prussia then suddenly became the dominating power in a vast stretch of country, reaching from Memel to Basle, and at one time saw twenty-six or twenty-seven million Germans marching under its orders.
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He was stationed eight years in Jerusalem, then a short time in Pesth, and then in Memel and Posen, and, lastly, for many years in Frankfort.
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The Memel is navigable in its course of 113 m. from the Russian frontier.
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