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World: Europe: Western Europe: Germanyaka The German Empire, country in central Europe. Pop. 56,367,178 [1900]. [JT]SCAN: Holmes:"And the man who wrote the note is a German." VALL: Douglas's first wife, Ettie Shafter, was of German extraction [Doubleday Edition; see also Sweden]. FIVE: The crew of the Bark Lone Star were mostly Finns and Germans. EMPT: The air-gun was made by Von Herder, the blind German mechanic. ENGI: Col. Lysander Stark had a German accent. CREE: Prof. Presbury brought back a little wooden box from his travels, "one of those quaint carved things which one associates with Germany." STUD: Narrator: "Not the Inquisition of Seville, nor the German Vehmgericht, nor the secret societies of Italy, were able to put a more formidable machinery in motion than that which cast a cloud over the state of Utah." HOUN: When Sir Henry Baskerville's second boot goes missing at the Northumberland Hotel, an agitated German waiter appeared on the scene. SECO: Hope's despatch box contained a note on the Russo-German grain taxes. Last Modified: Nov 7, 1998 |