When I was a kid, we were stationed in Verdun, France. From Wordnik.com. [The good, the bad and the puffy tacos | Homesick Texan] Reference
The desolation of Verdun is as impressive as the feverish activity of Châlons. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting France] Reference
It is twenty days 'journey to Verdun, which is the commencement of. From Wordnik.com. [The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela] Reference
The French, the Taxi Cab Army and miracle of the Marne, the Cauldron called Verdun. From Wordnik.com. [November 11] Reference
These were the rooms assigned to the officers de passage, officers whom duty kept for a night in Verdun. From Wordnik.com. [The Happy Foreigner] Reference
No living soul can sleep in Verdun now. From Wordnik.com. [The Happy Foreigner] Reference
"Verdun," she said; and Verdun lacy and perilous, hung in her mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Happy Foreigner] Reference
"Verdun" -- that was the word. From Wordnik.com. [Danger! and Other Stories] Reference
All the efforts are being directed against Verdun. From Wordnik.com. ['My Beloved Poilus'] Reference
Here was a Verdun for the Finance Minister to take. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
The next day we proceeded on toward the Verdun front. From Wordnik.com. [In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France] Reference
The day we quitted Verdun the retreating French army from. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
"Before you went to Saloniki, I see you fought at Verdun.". From Wordnik.com. [With Those Who Wait] Reference
Unionists are all pitching camps about the Premier's Verdun. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
Paris and on the Seine and his right wing into Verdun, Toul, and. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
Seventeenth French Corps, which occupied the heights above Verdun. From Wordnik.com. [Ned, Bob and Jerry on the Firing Line The Motor Boys Fighting for Uncle Sam] Reference
"Isn't mine at Verdun?" and then proudly, "And machine gunner at that!". From Wordnik.com. [With Those Who Wait] Reference
When I was 16, my parents and I visited the World War I battlefield of Verdun. From Wordnik.com. [The Parent Trap] Reference
Verdun; the Flight of Daedalus, and how Icarus was drowned through his vanity. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
Don't miss the Neige du Sahara -- lime, ginger and orange (8, avenue de Verdun). From Wordnik.com. [The Good Life] Reference
In the regions northeast of Verdun the German left wing joined hands with the Sixth. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
After Verdun, he began to see ordered patterns in the ebb and flow of human history. From Wordnik.com. [The Warrior] Reference
At Verdun, he says, he learned that "politics meant allowing somebody to dominate your life.". From Wordnik.com. [The Warrior] Reference
The French, for themselves, have answered the question at the Battle of the Marne and at Verdun. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of Lafayette] Reference
NOTE.E. Letter from Captain Otter respecting the establishment of a school for midshipmen at Verdun. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Lille, Douai, and St. Quentin early in the month, was now in full retreat between Verdun and the sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference
Freiburg, Basel, Schaffhausen, Lucerne and Interlaken to the E., and Epernay, Verdun and Metz to the N. 1. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Two hours east of Paris is the Verdun battlefield, where some 550,000 French soldiers gave their lives in 1916. From Wordnik.com. [Are We Almost There Yet?] Reference
Verdun, at the head of the town, near the public gardens and the lake, and not far from the steamboat-pier; Aigle; Savoie. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
He is not to be confounded with Smaragdus, abbot in the diocese of Verdun, author of a commentary on the rules of St. Bennet. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Madam L'H ---- was called back to Verdun to-day; she was supposed to have three weeks 'holidays, but has only been away ten days. From Wordnik.com. ['My Beloved Poilus'] Reference
On the first stage from Verdun, in descending a steep, long hill, a hailstorm overtook us, and as the hailstones fell they froze. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
At Neufchateau we reached the river Meuse with whose glory the names of heroic inconquerable Petain and Verdun shall be forever shared. From Wordnik.com. [The Greater Love] Reference
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