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Usage examples of viennese.

Rancherias and conjuntos make American country-western songs sound like Viennese waltzes.

She spoke in the slow, almost yokelish drawl that seemed typical of the modern Viennese.

This Gioachino Costa, although he had been forced to become a servant by his vices and bad practices, and was at that very time servant to a Viennese gentleman, was more or less of a poet.

Worshipping power and force and money-mastery as an elderly nerveridden woman might worship youthful physical energy, the comfortable, plump-bodied cafe-oracle had jested and gibed at the ambitions of the Balkan kinglets and their peoples, had unloosed against them that battery of strange lip-sounds that a Viennese employs almost as an auxiliary language to express the thoughts when his thoughts are not complimentary.

He was a bachelor of forty, who had done good financial service under the Viennese Government, and had now retired with a comfortable pension.

Posthof, and with their shoulders against the overhanging cliff, spread for the passing crowd a lure of Viennese jewelry in garnets, opals, amethysts, and the like, and of such Bohemian playthings as carrot-eating rabbits, worsted-working cats, dancing-bears, and peacocks that strut about the feet of the passers and expand their iridescent tails in mimic pride.

A third was playing a Viennese waltz on the clavichord, while a fourth, lying on the clavichord, sang the tune.

Consequently the Viennese Court sent them to Trieste with a strong recommendation to the governor, and they had been there for the past six months.

I would bind myself, dentures fractured or hopelessly mislaid, in horrible chambres garnies where I would be entertained at tedious vivisecting parties that generally ended with Charlotte or Valeria weeping in my bleeding arms and being tenderly kissed by my brotherly lips in a dream disorder of auctioneered Viennese bric--brac, pity, impotence and the brown wigs of tragic old women who had just been gassed.

Ben asked of the hulking Viennese cop, who just smoked and stared at him bovinely.

But, from the very first, he was captivated: in the first place, it was not psychology -- Lucien had a bellyfull of psychology -- the young people Barrès described were not abstract individuals or declassed like Rimbaud or Verlaine, nor sick like the unemployed Viennese who had themselves psychoanalysed by Freud.

Rather laboriously I transported home a Dobos torte from a very fine Viennese bakery in New York.

She arrived the next day, her limo packed with boxes of her favorite indulgences-smoked bluefish pate, the inevitable Beluga, Viennese coffee, a box of bitter chocolate florentines-plus, of course, a case of libations.

Currie had made a delicious champagne cup, what the Viennese call a Bowle, with fresh fruit in it.

Section over Rolland's early-morning decision to use the Viennese office for his own enquiries, stared straight ahead of him.