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Donge (river)

The Donge is a small river in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It rises from springs east of Baarle-Nassau as a stream called Leij. Near Tilburg the name changes to Donge. It passes the village of Dongen and flows north to the town of Geertruidenberg where it's continued by the Amer together with the Bergse Maas.

Its length is 35 km.

Donge

Donge may refer to:

  • Donge local dialect (Language) Dholuo (tribe in Kenya commonly known as Luo) word for Right
  • Donge (river), river in the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant
  • Donge County, in Shandong, China
  • Donge Constituency, a parliamentary constituency in Zanzibar North Region

Usage examples of "donge".

Lights came on in a few windows, and Prosper Donge braked sharply as he reached the grade crossing, which was shut, and through which he passed by the side gates.

Porte Dauphine, Donge suddenly felt the ground become harder under his wheels.

His hair was plastered down, and Prosper Donge thought it was Zebio, the dancer.

After turning down two or three narrow streets they reached the bottom of a fairly steep incline, and Prosper Donge got off his bike.

Someone coming in would probably have thought that the Donge family was quietly entertaining a neighbor.

Saint-Cloud, and he lived in a very different setting from that of the unmarried Donge couple.

Prosper Donge heard a car door slamming, the sound of the motor, footsteps, the key in the door.

Prosper Donge, on his bike, peacefully crossed the Bois de Boulogne, went over the Pont de Saint-Cloud, and got off his bicycle to walk up the steep road to his house.

The magistrate telephoned me again at about nine last night to say that Donge had refused to speak.

When he got back, Donge was sitting there unmoving, leaning forward with his arms crossed on the table and his head resting on his arms.

The magistrate had sent Prosper Donge to prison without any proof that he was guilty.

The name Prosper Donge struck me, because I happened to have seen the name somewhere recently.

In the first year, Donge, who was living in a small apartment on Rue Bray, near the Etoile, deposited another twelve thousand francs.

He told me he remembered remarking that Donge had left his house almost before it had been built.

The first American check, drawn on a bank in Detroit and made out to Prosper Donge, was dated March, three years ago, and made out for five hundred dollars.