Dresden
['drezdən]
Definition
(noun.) a city in southeastern Germany on the Elbe River; it was almost totally destroyed by British air raids in 1945.
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Examples
- Gudrun went to Dresden. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He brought me a lovely tropical parrot in faience, of Dresden ware, also a man ploughing, and two mice climbing up a stalk, also in faience. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She said in the coach yesterday that her pianist had fallen ill at Dresden. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Come to Dresden--that is a fine town to be in, and as good a life as you can expect of a town. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I don't delude myself that I shall find an elixir of life in Dresden. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He did little or nothing to follow up the Battle of Dresden. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Dresden, Paris, or London, what did it matter? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She might be going to England with Gerald, she might be going to Dresden with Loerke, she might be going to Munich, to a girl-friend she had there. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was in vain for him to bring Mr Merdle to Lord Decimus to tell him the history of the unique Dresden vases. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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