Belgian

Examples

• There were numerous dragon flies--one found in the Belgian coal-measures had a wing span of twenty-nine inches! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Mademoiselle, like most Belgian ladies, was specially skilful with her needle. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The fact is, he owed more money at London than at Paris; and he preferred the quiet little Belgian city to either of the more noisy capitals. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But the Belgian frontier of France was longer and less strongly defended. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I heard the same thing once before, said a Belgian, when I was in the gorilla country. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• It was through the use of such ordnance that the German army so easily reduced the strongly fortified Belgian cities. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This lover was a native of Brussels, and a Belgian hussar. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• One leg Belgian, one leg English, and the pickings of eight other people in it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He remembered a Belgian boy in the Eleventh Brigade who had enlisted with five other boys from his village. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He was accustomed to visit with his students the factories of that place as well as those of neighboring French and Belgian cities. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• My son made a careful examination and sketch for me of a dun Belgian cart-horse with a double stripe on each shoulder and with leg-stripes. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The Belgians in vain interposed to prevent the butchery of the English. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The Belgians left, the train ran on, through Luxembourg, through Alsace-Lorraine, through Metz. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I have often seen these among old Dutch people and Belgians. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• We have shot Belgians. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Some of them did their best to carry out these militarist instructions at the expense of the ill-fated Belgians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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