What is "wes"

Usage examples of "wes".

Napoleon habe Recht gehabt, zu sagen: Man kenne nicht das eigentliche Wesen des Handels.

Brunswick belongs almost entirely to the basin of the river Weser, into which the Oker, the Aller and the Leine, having their sources in the Harz, discharge their waters.

Winkler, Philosophische Untersuchungen von dem Seyn and Wesen der Seelen der Thiere, von einzelnen Liebhabern der Weltweisheit.

Zwei kleine Maedchen, zwei dieser huebschen, untersetzten Wesen mit den Haarbandeaux, den zu grossen Fuessen und den unbedenklichen Sitten, die Arm in Arm und abenteuerlustig an ihm vorueberschlenderten, stiessen sich an und lachten, legten sich vornueber und gerieten ins Laufen vor Lachen ueber seine Kapuze und sein Gesicht.

Lower Weser, retiring successively from Hamelen to Nienburgh, Verden, Rothenburgh, Buxtehude, and lastly to Stade, where, for want of subsistence and elbow-room, the troops were all made prisoners of war at large.

First came the Gestapo man who had arrested Eva and me when we were bathing out by the mouth of the Weser, and the summery sound of lazily lapping waves suddenly imposed itself upon the proceedings in court.

The electorate was summoned by Mortier on the 25th of May, and the Hanoverians being unable to resist, soon capitulated possession was taken of the country, and Mortier was enabled to control the navigation of the Elbe, and the Weser, as well as to levy contributions on the rich towns of Hamburg and Bremen.

Again, we would be staggering through the tide-rips and overfalls that infest the open fairway of the Weser on our passage between the Fork and the Pike.

Hervorden, and formed the rear guard, passed the Weser on the side of Remen, without any molestation, and encamped at Holtzuysen.

Clausthal-Zelterfeld, past Seesen and Goslar, across where the river Leine would be, and reaching toward Weser.

Contades, with thirty thousand men, had taken up an unassailable position: his right wing on the Weser, and his left on impassable bogs and quagmires, and with his front covered by the Bastau, a deep and unfordable brook.

July removed his headquarters from Osnabruck to Bompte, near the Weser.

Willy Eggers briefs him on the frontier traffic between Gross-Rosseln and Klein-Rosseln, he brings, because the Dulleck brothers in the hills of the upper Weser had nothing to offer him but country air and three-handed skat, a good case of urban and French-occupied gonorrhea.