Poland
['pəulənd]
Definition
(noun.) a republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II.
Edited by Bradley--From WordNet
Examples
- The Mongol wave had washed over Poland, but had never subjugated it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Let four maps of Poland tell the tale. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There were also ineffectual revolts in Italy and Germany in 1830, and a much more serious one in Russian Poland. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Poland was indeed born as a nation on the eve of her dissolution. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Poland was not simply a crowned aristocratic republic like the British, it was a paralyzed crowned aristocratic republic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Spain and Portugal, the countries which possess the mines, are, after Poland, perhaps the two most beggarly countries in Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Golz who had fought against Kolchak, and in Poland. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It was Poland that suffered by the distraction of France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Some of the salt mines in Poland are so extensive that it is said some of the miners spend all of their lives in them, never coming to the surface of the earth. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Interwoven with his history is the story of Poland. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He could have divided Poland as easily as an orange, or trod on Ireland as quietly and systematically as any man living. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- After this first outrage of 1772 Poland underwent a great change of heart. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Close at hand was Poland, ready to rise up and become the passionate ally of France had Napoleon but willed it so. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Poland, where the feudal system still continues to take place, is at this day as beggarly a country as it was before the discovery of America. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Poland was ravaged, and a mixed army of Poles and Germans was annihilated at the battle of Liegnitz in Lower Silesia in 1241. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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