mynheer in a sentence
Examples
- By Mynheer Peeperkorn the author of the novel simultaneously personalizes his rival, the influential German poet Gerhart Hauptmann, and even certain properties of Goethe ( with whom Hauptmann often was compared ).
- With the help of Mynheer Beresteyn, Diogenes has finally met his real father, an English Nobleman, and realised his true identify as Sir Percy Blake of Blakeney, heir to a large estate in Sussex.
- Stoutenburg them tells Mynheer Beresteyn that his son-in-law is a traitor, and knowing the Burgomaster's views on such behaviour leaves him alone in the dining hall with Diogenes and a loaded gun . ..
- He was accused of propounding Parnellite principles and denounced by British politicians in Cape Town as a Fenian whose " offence is rank ", and who " has been fraternising with Mynheer Van Dunk instead of sticking with John Bull ".
- In May 1795, " Komeet ", under the command of Captain-Lieutenant Mynheer Claris, and " Scipio ", under the command of de Jong, set out with a convoy of nine East Indiamen for Europe.
- One thing leads to another and before he knows it, Diogenes has promised Gilda's father that he will find his daughter and personally return her to him, for which Mynheer Beresteyn insists he will give the adventurer half of his considerable fortune.
- On 18 May 1795, " Komeet ", under the command of Captain-Lieutenant Mynheer Claris, and " Scipio ", under the command of de Jong, set out from Table Bay with a convoy of sixteen East Indiamen, for Europe.
- With the aid of John de la Poole, the Earl of Lincoln, Lovel and Edumund are involved in spiriting away Richard, Duke of York into the hands of Mynheer Jahn Warbeck, a Flemish moneylender who had previously housed him and pretended that Richard was his deceased son, Perkin Warbeck.
- Borckenhagen was therefore seen as a " maker of Presidents " and even acquired the nicknames of " " Mynheer de President " " and " " President van die Vrystaat " ", as he was acknowledged to be the " power behind the throne " of the Presidency.
- In the title of his novel " The Magic Mountain ", Thomas Mann alludes to a passage from " The Birth of Tragedy ", and the influence of Nietzsche's work can be seen in the novel's character Mynheer Peepercorn, who embodies the " Dionysian principle ."