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Rhein

noun

A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world; flows into the North Sea. Synonyms: Rhine, Rhine River.

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... Socialists formed up again, and began to demonstrate anew, so that the police were compelled to attack them without any consideration in order to preserve the peace. They cleared the pavements and galloped up the promenade. Again the cry echoed 'Down with war!' and as answer came 'die Wacht am Rhein.' But it was some considerable time before the struggle ceased to surge to and fro." (Muenchen-Augsburger Abendzeitung, ...

— What Germany Thinks - The War as Germans see it • Thomas F. A. Smith

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... is an inconsiderable Town still standing in those peaty regions, some five-and-thirty miles northwest of Berlin; and had for ages plied its poor Ferry over the oily-looking, brown, sluggish stream called Rhin, or Rhein in those parts, without the least notice from mankind, till this fell out. It is a place of pilgrimage to patriotic Prussians, ever since Friedrich Wilhelm's exploit there. The ...

— History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great—The Hohenzollerns In Brandenburg—1412-1718 • Thomas Carlyle

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Words linked to "Rhein" : France, Nederland, river, Suisse, French Republic, Deutschland, Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Netherlands, Svizzera, Kingdom of The Netherlands, FRG, Swiss Confederation, Schweiz, Rhine, Holland, Federal Republic of Germany