Spandau

[ shpahn-dou ]

/ ˈʃpɑn daʊ /

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a district of Berlin, in E Germany: site of prison for Nazi war criminals.

QUIZZES

In effect, this quiz will prove whether or not you have the skills to know the difference between “affect” and “effect.”

Question 1 of 7

The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

This did not frighten her, as her chest at Spandau had been swelled from thirty millions to ninety millions.
Ways of War and Peace|Delia Austrian
My father was a Jewish merchant, first in that town, and later in Spandau, where I passed my boyhood.
Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ|Rev. A. Bernstein, B.D.
I then entered the army for one year as a volunteer doctor, and was sent to Spandau, and then to Jterberg.
Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ|Rev. A. Bernstein, B.D.
Hopes were held out to him of the surrender of Kstrin, but he was assured that Spandau should never be his.
The Thirty Years' War|Samuel Rawson Gardiner

In the glorious annals of the empire one finds many passages like this: 'We have entered Spandau.
Saragossa|Benito Prez Galds