How To Use Vilna In A Sentence
- Secondly, the Russians might abandon Vilna and draw off to mass in force south of a line running from Grodno to Slonim; in that case the Grande Armée would sweep into the Russian rear, and pen them in a pocket formed by Slonim, the Pripet Marshes, the rivers Bug and Narew—a repetition, in fact, of the enveloping movement used to such good effect at Ulm in 1805. THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON
- Outside Mr. Vilna's office sits a steam-shovel -- donated by Taiwan -- that could restore the irrigation canals. Food Crisis Forces New Look at Farming
- The army had been compelled to retreat from Vilna owing to various complex considerations of state, of policy, and tactics.
- Peter has been given money by Vilna Lutz to buy food, but he spends part of it on a fortuneteller instead. The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo: Questions
- Meanwhile, her family had moved to Vilna, the hotbed of Jewish politics in the Russian Empire, where she became an active member of the Social Democratic Labor Party and the Jewish Labor Party, and an antimilitarist propagandist. Sophia Dubnow-Erlich.
- Genius thereminist Clara Rockmore was born Clara Reisenberg in Vilna (now Vilnius), Lithuania, in 1911. Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Twenty-Eight
- According to the convention between the Holy See and the Government, the diocesan bishops should have 22 auxiliaries: 3 for the metropolitanate of Mohileff; 3 for the Diocese of Kovno; 3 for Lutzk, Zhitomir, and Kamenetz; 3 for Vilna; 2 for Tiraspol; 2 for The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
- ephraim · August 17th, 2007 at 12:10 pm af yidish heyst di shtot “vilne” . “vilna” iz der rusisher nomen. Jerusalem of Lithuania | Jewschool
- Klausner was born near Vilna in 1874 and began his education in a traditional Jewish heder, or schoolhouse.
