A picturesque region of Germany around the Rhine river

Usage examples of rhineland.

Doing nothing to help Abyssinia against Italy, or to prevent Nazi Germany from invading the Rhineland was an experiment.

The tender fanatics went in bands up and down Rhineland, challenging wayfarers and the peasantry with staff and beaker to acknowledge the supremacy of their mistress.

Not another girl in blessed Rhineland, and Bohemia to boot, dared say such words!

For three successive centuries the towns of Rhineland boasted his visits in the flesh, and the conqueror of Darkness caused dire Rhenish feuds.

He had butchered Roehm and the SA on a Saturday, he had reintroduced conscription on a Saturday, he had retaken the Rhineland on a Saturday.

I have witnesses to bear me out -- even in Leipzig, in Pirna, and months later, after Mahlke had discarded his own, a few isolated pairs made their appearance as far west as the Rhineland and the Palatinate.

Alfred Matzerath, a native of the Rhineland, lay there wounded -- the bullet had passed clear through his thigh -- and soon with his merry Rhenish ways became the favorite of all the nurses, Sister Agnes not excluded.

As a native of the Rhineland he knew nothing about ships and there was certainly not one single Finn among his acquaintances.

They hear voices ahead, then are suddenly zooming out of Invisibility, in among the Axmen, who, believing them pitiless crazy predators in this place lonely as any in Ulster or the Rhineland, scatter for their Lives back into the Trees.

The Times, which had wilfully ignored the reports coming from their own man in Berlin throughout the early thirties, the Observer, which had applauded Hitler's invasion of the demilitarised Rhineland in 1936, the Daily Mail, which had been stupidly pro-Nazi, and Beaverbrook's own Daily Express,which had repeatedly furthered the shaky cause of peace by urging `no intervention' as Hitler tore up treaties, broke rules and extended his territorial imperative.

When the surrounding Prussians learned that one of the aérostats had carried Minister Gambetta safely out to the unoccupied provinces, they sent a hurried message to the gunworks at Essen in the Rhineland.

These begin innocuously enough with headings such as “Arenas of Gentlemanly Debate” and “Unraveling the Greywacke,” but then proceed on to “The Greywacke Defended and Attacked,” “Reproofs and Recriminations,” “The Spread of Ugly Rumors,” “Weaver Recants His Heresy,” “Putting a Provincial in His Place,” and (in case there was any doubt that this was war) “Murchison Opens the Rhineland Campaign.