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How To Use horst In A Sentence

• These faults bound horsts, grabens and tilted blocks.
• Three young artists, Hendrick ter Brugghen, Gerrit van Honthorst, and Dirck van Baburen, travelled to Rome from Utrecht which, being the seat of the Catholic archbishopric, had maintained strong links with the papal city.
• Publicius's substitution of the pineal gland for the vermis — an opinion held by the "ignorant and stupid," according to Galen (Lokhorst and Kaitaro, "Descartes 'Theory," 7) — is a notion that may be traced back through a translation by Constantine the African to Ibn al-Jazzar (900 – 980), whose views are otherwise consistent with Costa's. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
• Working among the Calvinist peasantry in Staphorst, a village near Amsterdam, Sluyters adopted a sombre Expressionist style to depict the puritanical austerity of their lives.
• While the energetic midfielder's two fouls - on Van Bronckhorst and then Pires - just about deserved cautions, a final warning would surely have been a more common-sense decision.
• Whether cast as heroes or villains, Horst Tappert had an air of amiability about him that was hard to dislike, a hangdog avuncularity that put him in the company of actors like Walter Matthau and Peter Falk. Death Notice: Horst Tappert
• Professors Babcock and Munroe, of Chicago, call the plants either the Hydrogastrum of Rabenhorst, or the Botrydium of the Micrographic Dictionary, the crystalline acicular bodies being deemed parasitic. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
• Harms, said that the trial court had found that even if Matthews, van der Schyff, Badenhorst and Ettiene Visser had not acted with direct intent, they were nevertheless guilty of the four murders and six attempted murders on the basis of "dolus eventualis" (that death could eventuate). ANC Daily News Briefing
• Terbrugghen returned to Utrecht in 1614, Honthorst and Baburen in 1620. Art Knowledge News
• Thorstein had a home in the Western Settlement at a certain farmstead, which is called Lysufirth. The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503