I believe no man thinks a goose to be more beautiful than a swan, or imagines that what they call a Friesland hen excels a peacock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12)] Reference

A swan, or imagines that what they call a Friesland hen excels a peacock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II] Reference

The province of Friesland, which is eighty-eight kilometers long, is protected by three rows of enormous palisades sustained by blocks of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holland, v. 1 (of 2)] Reference

You're getting a dismal impression of Friesland. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Riddle of the Sands]

Friesland, in acknowledging American Independence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 April 1782] Reference

In the fens of Friesland 1230, by reason of tempests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

Friesland and now claims the deserted Duchy of Brabant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

All forlorn of their friends now, Friesland to look on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference

The 4th of July we came within the making of Friesland.    From Wordnik.com.  [The North-West Passage] Reference

In Friesland the Sunday game for youths is 'Het slingeren met.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dutch Life in Town and Country] Reference

"How do you like Friesland?" asked Mevrouwter Brons Huizinga.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paradise For Two]

Use of as a Tool, in the Friesland Affair, which I read of, in.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Adams diary 34, 5 -- 26 October 1782] Reference

He raided the shores of the Continent from Friesland to Northern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

He arrived at Friesland in the year 716, and proceeded onwards to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bibliomania in the Middle Ages] Reference

Ems (Amisia), and the province of Friesland; now the countries of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus] Reference

Friesland tribute is stranger still, nor is it easy to understand from.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference

Hanna was from Friesland just as Jultsje was, being that lady's niece.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Girl Named Rose]

Friesland, in excavations in Maastricht, in ships and quays and docks in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dutch Life in Town and Country] Reference

Anglo-Saxon race -- essentially the same whether in Friesland, England, or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference

In some parts of Friesland and in Voorburg, one of the many villages near The.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dutch Life in Town and Country] Reference

I've a small farm in Friesland -- a few sheep and cows, hens and ducks and geese.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Good Wife]

She remembered the splendid hospitality she had received at his home in Friesland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cruise To A Wedding]

Then they went home to Friesland, where Hengest stayed with Finn through the winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference

Friesland, in Feb. 1782 to receive me, another of that of the states General of 19th.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 20 May 1783] Reference

Another enormous house, thought Phoebe, but quite different from the one in Friesland.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Summer Idyll]

Greenland, Friesland, which half the year are covered all over with snow, and frozen up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

Burgundy and Friesland with twenty-six standards besides a magnificent sceptre and crown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477] Reference

East Friesland, upon the extinction of the reigning house, fell to Prussia (See 1744–45).    From Wordnik.com.  [1730ff] Reference

He continued to preach till the death of Edward the Sixth; when he crossed to Narden in Friesland.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference

It was named after the people of Friesland in Holland in the 13th century, and is famous to-day as an Irish fabric.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference

Before that disastrous occurrence the island could be seen from the shores of Friesland, which in the days of Charles the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896] Reference

Friesland, eighteen months before, and compelled Radbod, who remained sovereign in the northern part, to pay an annual tribute.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference