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schill

Zander \Zan"der\, n. [Cf. D. zand sand.] (Zo["o]l.) A European pike perch ( Stizostedion lucioperca) allied to the wall-eye; -- called also sandari, sander, sannat, schill, and zant.

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Schill

__NOTOC__ Schill is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • a nickname for Curt Schilling (b. 1966), American baseball player
  • Ferdinand von Schill (1776–1809), Prussian soldier
  • -->Kurt Schill (1911–1944), German communist and a resistance fighter
  • -->Lambert Schill (1888–1976), German politician
  • -->Otto Schill (1838–1918), German jurist
  • Rachel Schill (b. 1982), Canadian softball player
  • Ronald Schill (b. 1958), German ex-politician, retired judge

Usage examples of "schill".

Homer and Cicero, Goethe and Schiller, philology and the diophantine solution for algebraic equations.

Schill accordingly gave up his designs on that city, and leaving it on his left, entered Lubeck, which was undefended.

One of them, Schiller Mann, is noted for not only dissuading Merced during his early years, but also for having nearly dissuaded the mathematician Udo Raleigh, who made major contributions to topological statistics, from a career in mathematics.

Coming in from a ride, a week after she had sat with Winton under the Schiller statue, Gyp found on her dressing-table a bunch of Gloire de Dijon and La France roses.

The captaincy was most in dispute between Dietrich Schill and Berthold Schmidt, who, in the heat and constancy of contention, were gradually losing likeness to man.

The White Rose Club were invited by Gottlieb to the wedding, and took it in vast wrath until they saw the, Kaiser, and such excellent stout German fare present, when immediately a battle raged as to who should do the event most honour, and was in dispute till dawn: Dietrich Schill being the man, he having consumed wurst the length of his arm, and wine sufficient to have floated a St.

Schiller: no tie, no pompoms, no pendants, no screwdriver, nor any other item from his copious arsenal.

To this very day -- and even now that Oskar in his eagerness for learning is gradually plowing his way through the whole hospital library -- I snap my fingers at Schiller and company and fluctuate between Rasputin and Goethe, between the faith healer and the man of the Enlightenment, between the dark spirit who cast a spell on women and the luminous poet prince who was so fond of letting women cast a spell on him.

Weimar was the home of Wieland and of Herder before the young Grand-Duke came back from his travels bringing Goethe with him, and afterwards attracting Schiller.

He was so full of the pathos of their inequality before the world that he did not heed the warning on the door of the pastry-shop near the Schiller house, and on opening it he bedaubed his hand with the fresh paint on it.

On the walls of the living room were hung highly colored advertising chromos of steamships and palaces of industry, and on the bureau Edith noticed two illustrated newspapers of the last year, a patent-medicine almanac, and a volume of Schiller.

He intuitively saw what Schiller has so well expressed, that it is an universal phenomenon of our nature that the mournful, the fearful, even the horrible, allures with irresistible enchantment He probed this general psychological law, in its subtle windings through the mystic chambers of our being, as it was never probed before, until he stood in the very abyss of its center, the sole master of its effects.

The German Aufklarung influenced me, especially Schiller and his ideas of freedom.

An ashtray, phone and facsimile machine furnished Ludmilla's desk, and as Michael strode across the room and opened the door for Peter Schiller, Arkady saw that, next to its transmit button, the fax had the number that had called Rudy Rosen and asked, 'Where is Red Square?

My TV here in Schiller Park, thanks to the jets and O'Hare, has snow for 10 seconds out of every 30 seconds because of the vibrating antenna on the roof, and there doesn't seem to be any way it can be fixed.