silesia

How To Use silesia In A Sentence

• A woman refugee from Silesia in Poland had moved into the family home. She greeted him with a bunch of flowers.
• Such works have always been explicated through commentary, and this one too is designed for commentary, like the German Baroque dramas to which the learned Silesians appended their scholia.
• For example, a Christmas delicacy called makówki, made traditionally in the region of Upper Silesia in the south of Poland, consists of layers of sliced bread or baguette soaked in a sweet mixture of ground poppy seeds, milk, nuts, almonds, raisins, orange peel and sugar. Polish bread | the POLSKI blog
• Such works have always been explicated through commentary, and this one too is designed for commentary, like the German Baroque dramas to which the learned Silesians appended their scholia.
• The 'Silesian' method includes a "soldier sprag" brace wedged between the props underneath the roof bar to reinforce the props against lateral compressive forces. 5.1 Rigid support in drifts and stopes
• Mr Mipchin was sitting over a coffee-table on which was a half-finished jigsaw puzzle, apparently of a vast cornfield in Upper Silesia. THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
• The NW has shipping, while Silesia is the heavy coal producer in Poland. Matthew Yglesias » The Ghosts of the Past
• Even Prussia was never a major power until Frederick the Great stole Silesia from the Hapsburg. Matthew Yglesias » The Fall of Poland
• It is based on the anthroposophical teachings of Rudolf Steiner, particularly on the eight lectures given by him in Schloss Koberwitz in Silesia, Germany in 1924 (nowadays close to Wrocław, Poland), shortly before his death. WBW #29: Shinn Estate Vineyards 2004 Cabernet Franc (North Fork)
• It was my mother's guilty pleasure, which my sister and I shared – guilty, because being Silesian in Warsaw wasn't easy then; Silesia being the southern region with a large German population, a melting pot of Polish, German and Czech people, with its own, now sadly dying, hilarious dialect, a mixture of all three languages. Family life