The mud in Flanders is of the most oozy description. From Wordnik.com. [With Canada at the Front] Reference
Practically the term Flanders or Flemish lace can be applied to all the laces made in Flanders and Belgium of the earliest periods. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
To land in French Flanders it is her wish'd design. From Wordnik.com. [Jack A Roe] Reference
This carmel had been founded in Flanders at the time of the Reformation. From Wordnik.com. [More Encouraging News from the Franciscans of the Immaculate: Their House in Lanherne, England] Reference
Flanders is still engaged in graduate studies in the biological sciences. From Wordnik.com. [Haldan K. Hartline - Biography] Reference
Lt.Col. John McCrae, a medical doctor, was the author of "in Flanders Fields.". From Wordnik.com. [Christmas Luncheon] Reference
I was warned never to try speaking French in Flanders as English is preferable. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Cheney Casts Deciding Vote to Pass Budget That Hammers the Poor] Reference
Events dear boy, events: Good news – Flanders is back skip to main | skip to sidebar. From Wordnik.com. [Good news – Flanders is back] Reference
But all the rest what come from Flanders is Flemish (flemish beer, flemish food, …). From Wordnik.com. [slim, sexy en druk] Reference
And not even the carnage in Flanders or at the Battle of Britain has effaced its memory. From Wordnik.com. [Triumph at Trafalgar] Reference
THERE was in Flanders a lady of such good family that there was none better in the country. From Wordnik.com. [The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre] Reference
The article, How to Write Like a Wanker, by Vincent Flanders, is one of those precious gems. From Wordnik.com. [How to Write Like a Wanker « Lorelle on WordPress] Reference
Alençon accepted an invitation from the insurgents in Flanders to place himself at their head. From Wordnik.com. [A Parallel History of France and England; Consisting of Outlines and Dates] Reference
There are, however, as we shall see, other considerations at play as regards Flanders is concerned. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-07] Reference
In wet weather – and in Flanders mud – with shell holes everywhere, the wheeled stretcher is useless. From Wordnik.com. [War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps] Reference
A letter posted from the trenches in Flanders in 1915 was delivered to its correct destination last week. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous] Reference
In 1712, Eugène, left alone with the Austrian army, was repeatedly defeated in Flanders by Marshall Villars. From Wordnik.com. [A Parallel History of France and England; Consisting of Outlines and Dates] Reference
'The Refuge for the Destitute,' they call Flanders; I suppose because I am too good-natured to turn rogues out. From Wordnik.com. [Hereward, the Last of the English] Reference
Well, there is always one answer: some of them lie in Flanders 'fields and some in other fields, farther-flung. From Wordnik.com. [The Future of the Legitimate Theatre] Reference
France, while its pestilential breath was now wafted into Flanders from the German as well as the French border. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
There had been an extensive outbreak of typhoid among the civilian population in Flanders in the autumn of 1914. From Wordnik.com. [War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps] Reference
I went to pre-school in Flanders and then the French primary school, which meant that I crossed the border every day. From Wordnik.com. [Yves Chauvin - Autobiography] Reference
Listen! dear dead who lie in Flanders fields, around St. Julien Wood, in Gravenstafel Ridge, at Wieltje and at Fortuin. From Wordnik.com. [War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps] Reference
However, the experience in Flanders and France proved that modern warfare required much heavier tank armour and armament. From Wordnik.com. [Men Money and Materiel] Reference
Flanders is peopled, as per usual for this filmmaker, with characters that wouldn't rate a spot in Mike Judge's Idiocracy. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: Rendez-Vous. 7.] Reference
By the summer of 1793 European coalition forces had installed themselves on French soil in Flanders and along the Pyrenees. From Wordnik.com. [Annotations] Reference
If we can survive this war, the defeat in Flanders will turn out to have been one of the great turning-points in English history. From Wordnik.com. [The Lion and the Unicorn] Reference
As he came near to Sluys, a town in Flanders, he saw such a number of masts that it seemed as if a forest had come sailing out to sea. From Wordnik.com. [An Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls] Reference
Lisle in Flanders, an assembly of his nobles; and the pompous pageants of the feast were skilfully adapted to their fancy and feelings. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
"Like his first two movies, La Vie de Jésus and Humanité, Flanders is a pungent rural symphony; you can practically smell the manure.". From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: Same time next year?] Reference
Death of Lieutenant-Colonel Buller, Killed in Flanders in 1795. From Wordnik.com. [On the Death of Lieutenant-Colonel Buller, Killed in Flanders in 1795] Reference
The Rothschild Canticles: Art and Mysticism in Flanders and the Rhineland circa 1300. From Wordnik.com. [Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany] Reference
There is an - other fort of the fame name, two miles sw of Siuys, in Dutch Flanders. From Wordnik.com. [The general gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary [microform] : containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world : with the government, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants; the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of each country, the trade, manufactures, and curiosities of the cities and towns; their longitude, latitude, bearings and distances in English miles from remarkable places; and the various events by which they have been distinguished : including an account of the counties, cities, boroughs, market-towns, and principal villages, in Great Britain and Ireland] Reference
Flanders, which is home to 60 per cent of the Belgian population, already has agreements with Hungary and Poland. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
There is Bruges, in a country called Flanders, shown between "Holland" and a country to the south labelled "Belgium". From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference
Germany, and Flanders, which is the shortest way to England and a different Rout from that I took in coming to Italy. From Wordnik.com. [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference
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