Willkomm tells us, that the rest of the world, which "the cabin'd cribb'd" Lusatian has himself learned to call. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
Not only is this a likely vicinity for Proto-Italic, but hence also spread an impetus to the Nordic Bronze Age in the century to come as well as to the Lusatian culture area of the Venedi. From Wordnik.com. [Pondering on the phrase 'capite velato'] Reference
The Lusatian traditions, brought to light in Germany by Ernst Willkomm, and now first made known to Englishmen in these pages, were collected by our author, as we have already observed, with difficulty and labour. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
Oh, how much other than yon sweet lily of the high Lusatian valleys, the shade-loving Flower, the good Maud -- herself looked upon with love by the glad eyes of men, women, children, Fairies, and Angels! oh, other indeed!. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
Lusatian mountains -- three, six, ten centuries ago; or, in unreckoned antiquity, by the common Ancestors of the believers, who, in still unmeasured antiquity, brought the superstition of the Fairies out of central Asia to remote occidental Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
Willkomm confesses that their coldness towards strangers is unparalleled; they have no confidence whatever in foreigners; "and let a Lusatian but suspect," he says, "that you come a-fishing to him, and to listen out his privacies; then may you," as we may render the Lusatian proverb, "'Lose yourself before you find his mushroom.'". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
He had 100,000 men among the Lusatian hills between. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)] Reference
The Upper Lusatian story illustrates, in folklore style. From Wordnik.com. [Sixty Folk-tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources] Reference
The Lusatian Sorbs are Catholics with exception of 15,000 in Upper. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
The second division includes the Bohemians, Slovaks, and the Lusatian. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
The Lower Lusatian tale is a variant of our own ` Little Red Ridinghood. '. From Wordnik.com. [Sixty Folk-tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources] Reference
At present the Lusatian Sorbs numbers about 150,000 persons on the upper course of the Spree. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
The Lusatian Sorbs also are generally looked upon as a separate people with a distinct language. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
A remarkable point in the Lusatian language is the completeness of the dual number in both nouns, adjectives, and verbs. From Wordnik.com. [Sixty Folk-tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources] Reference
The Lusatian observers, and M. Hattorf in particular, thought the queen was fecundated by herself, without concourse with the males. From Wordnik.com. [New observations on the natural history of bees] Reference
The Lusatian Sorbs are the residue of the Slavs of the Elbe who once spread across the Oder and Elbe, inhabiting the whole of the present. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
The Sorbs, also knows as Wends or Lusatian Serbs, are a Slavic people of some 60,000 who live in the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg. From Wordnik.com. [The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe] Reference
Only the Lusatian Sorbs who lived nearer the borders of Bohemia have been able to maintain themselves in declining numbers until the present time. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
The Lusatian observers, and those of the Palatinate, affirm, that when common bees are confined with combs absolutely void of eggs, they then lay none but the eggs of drones. From Wordnik.com. [New observations on the natural history of bees] Reference
If, however, that leader remained on the defensive, the Emperor determined to fall back on what had all along been his second plan, and make a rush through the Lusatian defiles on. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)] Reference
THE Upper Lusatian language is spoken in a district which may be marked by the towns of Löbau, Bautzen, and Muskau, while the Lower Lusatians dwell round the towns of Spremberg and Kottbus. From Wordnik.com. [Sixty Folk-tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources] Reference
A Lusatian tradition quoted by Grimm in a note represents the watersnake-king's crown as not only valuable in itself, but like other fairy property, the bringer of great riches to its possessor. From Wordnik.com. [The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology] Reference
Their extreme left rested on the spurs of the Lusatian mountains, while their long front of some four miles in extent stretched northwards along a ridge that rose between the River Spree and an affluent, and bent a convex threatening brow against that river and town. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)] Reference
In the Lusatian ceremony described above, the tree which is brought home after the destruction of the figure of Death is plainly equivalent to the trees or branches which, in the preceding customs, were brought back as representatives of Summer or Life, after Death had been thrown away or destroyed. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion] Reference
Willkomm's Upper Lusatian, an EXTRA Lusatian picture of the TEUTONIC. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
A great force through the Lusatian defiles into Bohemia and drive the allies before him towards Vienna. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)] Reference
Lusatian, Polish and Kasube. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
Lusatian. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
Korotanish, Polish, Lusatian, Bohemian, Slovak. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
Slavs taken together numbered approximately 136,500,000 persons divided thus: Russians, 94,000,000; Poles, 17,500,000; Lusatian. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
You must well remember the picture -- which showed you from the rough yet delicate -- the humorous yet sympathetic and picturesque -- the original yet insinuating pencil of a shrewd and hearty Lusatian mountaineer -- the aerial, brilliant, sensitive, subtle, fascinating, enigmatical, outwardly -- mirth-given, inwardly -- sorrow-touched, congregated folk numberless -- of the Fairies Proper!. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
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