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Schlesien

American  
[shley-zee-uhn] / ˈʃleɪ zi ən /

noun

  1. German name of Silesia.


Schlesien British  
/ ˈʃleːziən /

noun

  1. the German name for Silesia

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Just heard from 'topsides,' absolutely official: the battleship you strafed was the 'Schlesien,' complement 660.

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It was not, however, without result; for Bevern, freed from the restraint of his energetic colleague, at once fell back to Schlesien, where he was more comfortable, near his magazines.

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Can now, at any rate, make for Schlesien and the meal-magazines, when he sees good.

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Kaiser Franz was, and continued, of the old way of thinking; but consummate Kaunitz, and the High Lady's fixed passion for her Schlesien, had changed everybody else.

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July is Pommern: Onward thence to Schlesien, oftenest in August; Schlesien the last place, and generally not done with till well on in September.

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