He wanted to hasten on in the direction of the booming noise, for he knew that there would be
Germans fighting against the English.
If she respected the case as inviolable, the
Germans would certainly not hesitate to examine it, and the
Germans would hardly trouble themselves to write to England.
I was the last to come, and when I reached the bottom, I found myself looking into the muzzle of a pistol in the hands of Baron Friedrich von Schoenvorts--I saw all my men lined up at one side with the remaining eight
Germans standing guard over them.
The Americans had drawn together the ends of the flying line skilfully and dexterously, until at last it was a column and well to the south of the lax sweeping pursuit of the
Germans.
Bradley knew nothing of the disappearance of Bowen Tyler and Miss La Rue, nor of the perfidy of the
Germans in shelling the fort and attempting to escape in the U-33; but he was in no way surprised at what he saw before him.
Where and how did we get the idea that the
Germans are a stolid, phlegmatic race?
And then those two young men got up, and asked us if we had ever heard Herr Slossenn Boschen (who had just arrived, and was then down in the supper-room) sing his great
German comic song.
I was attending to some of our fellows and got very near to the
German lines.
As he mounted the deck, ahab abruptly accosted him, without at all heeding what he had in his hand; but in his broken lingo, the
German soon evinced his complete ignorance of the White Whale; immediately turning the conversation to his lamp-feeder and oil can, with some remarks touching his having to turn into his hammock at night in profound darkness --his last drop of Bremen oil being gone, and not a single flying-fish yet captured to supply the deficiency; concluding by hinting that his ship was indeed what in the Fishery is technically called a clean one (that is, an empty one), well deserving the name of Jungfrau or the Virgin.
The world of the
German literate consisted solely in bringing the new French ideas into harmony with their ancient philosophical conscience, or rather, in annexing the French ideas without deserting their own philosophic point of view.
I was in a fever to know more of him, and it was my great good luck to fall in with a
German in the village who had his books.
There was visiting the watering-place that year a real
German Fuerstin, in consequence of which the crystallizing process went on more vigorously than ever.
