Vienna

Examples

• She would like to go to Rome, Munich, Vienna, or to St Petersburg or Moscow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• In 1833 phosphorus friction matches were introduced on a commercial scale by Preschel, of Vienna. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The same thing may be said of Paris, Madrid, and Vienna. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The great Harburg-Vienna factories cover sixty-seven acres, are capitalized at 9,000,000 marks, and employ 3,500 hands. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Thus, notwithstanding the thoughtless delight that waited on its commencement, the impression I have of my life at Vienna is melancholy. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The crown of Charlemagne, which is preserved in the imperial treasury of Vienna, is composed of eight plates of gold, four large and four small, connected by hinges. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The second was the impossible system of boundaries drawn by the diplomatists of Vienna. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Half the population of Vienna, it is believed, unless American relief comes quickly, is doomed to die of hardship before the spring. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In 1529 the Turks besieged Vienna, and were defeated rather by the weather than by the defenders. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Habsburgs, who had toadied to his success, had taken away his Habsburg empress--she went willingly enough--to Vienna, and he never saw her again. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• That is what I like; though I have heard most things--been at the opera in Vienna: Gluck, Mozart, everything of that sort. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Edison until we find him keeping a hotel at Vienna, marrying a school-teacher there (Miss Nancy Elliott, in 1828), and taking a lively share in the troublous politics of the time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• When the Vienna Exposition, in 1873, was held, a great advance was shown in this and all other classes of agricultural machinery. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• When I was five years old I was taken by my father and mother on a visit to Vienna. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In 1845, Schrotter of Vienna discovered amorphous or allotropic phosphorus, which rendered the manufacture of matches less dangerous to health and property. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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