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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

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 Heyse, Paul

The father of the poet, Paul Heyse, who later became the celebrated philologist, was his private tutor in the home of the Mendelssohns, where the intellectual aristocracy of Berlin frequently assembled.

From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.

Not until "Colberg," "Elizabeth Charlotte," and "Hans Lange" had appeared, would the general public acknowledge Heyse as a great dramatist.

From A Divided Heart and Other Stories by Heyse, Paul

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