What is "balaton"

Usage examples of "balaton".

The Slovaks had, on their own initiative, already lighted two cooking fires, fetched kettles of the clean lake water, and had even bought from the local fishermen a basketful of fogas, the Lake Balaton pike-perch.

Then Florian commanded a number of the Slovaks and the lightest wagon to depart immediately and go on ahead, with a hefty stack of Florilegium posters, to circle the entire extent of Lake Balaton and post paper in every least village and hamlet around its shores.

The weather report, which predicted further heavy and continuous snowfalls over almost the entire country, contained an item of extreme interest: all south-west Hungary, in an area stretching east from Lake Balaton to Szeged on the Yugoslavian border, was completely immobilised by the severest snowstorm since the war, every road, railway line and airport being completely blocked.

Such things are hard to come by in a country as primitive as Russia, and we won't find them at Lake Balaton either.

Their destination at Lake Balaton was sixty miles and two long days away, so they camped on the roadside that night, near the only building they had seen in several miles: a modest-sized csárda with the signboard Szep Juhászne.

You'll see waves and billows and breakers on Balaton as impressive as any ocean could offer.

The Slovaks were sent all around Balaton to post paper proclaiming the event, and the tober overflowed with spectators that day.

They recently lost their jobs when their employer's ranch went bankrupt, so they entrained for the west to have some civilized and cultured diversion in Budapest and here at Balaton before returning to the puszta to seek new positions.

I regret to tell you also, my dear, that he will not be coming back to Balaton this year.

We have given them a job they delight in, and have made them stellar artistes, the toast of Lake Balaton, and soon to be internationally renowned.

However, by the next day's dawning, the company had at long last left behind the monotonous grasslands they had been crossing ever since shortly after leaving Lake Balaton, away back in Hungary.

The fifty-mile stretch of Lake Balaton blocked off most of the escape routes to the Austrian border in the west, and both men had been sure that between its southern tip and the Yugoslavian border not even the most insignificant road would be left unwatched.

The other routes to the west, between the northern tip of Balaton and Budapest might or might not have been watched, but they had taken no chances.

Between Lake Balaton and the Danube the Fourth Cavalry Brigade is fighting off counterattacks.

That dark red shape was a giant carp turning in the water, its head facing east, its tail flicking out toward Marseilles hsien, its cruel mouth open, poised to eat Lake Balaton, which, like a tiny minnow, swam some three hundred It to the east.