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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

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 Maurice Francis Egan

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

Heyse In this year, Mirza Ali Mohamad, the great founder of the new Bab religion in Persia, with his disciples Aka Mohamad Ali and Sayyid Husayn of Yezd, Babism in Persia suffered martyrdom.

From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Edwin Emerson

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