Schlesien
Americannoun
noun
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Considerable recruiting in Schlesien: six hundred recruits have enlisted in Breslau alone.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Carlyle, Thomas
Here in 1842 he wrote his "Das Feldlager in Schlesien" in which Jenny Lind made a great success.
From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)
With the one and the other, Schlesien appears to have been tolerably content.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14 by Carlyle, Thomas
Friedrich recollects another thing, one of many others: that of those "ulterior mountains," which Austria had bargained for as Boundary to Schlesien.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14 by Carlyle, Thomas
Who first lived in Schlesien, or lived long since in it, there is no use in asking, nor in telling if one knew.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Carlyle, Thomas
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