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Kleist   /klaɪst/   Listen
Kleist

noun
1.
German dramatist whose works concern people torn between reason and emotion (1777-1811).  Synonyms: Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist, Heinrich von Kleist.





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"Kleist" Quotes from Famous Books



... A ball struck the King, whose life was saved by the circumstance of its coming in contact with an etui in his waistcoat pocket. He was obliged to be carried almost by force off the field when all was lost. The poet Kleist, after storming three batteries and crushing his right hand, took his sword in his left hand and fell while ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, v. 13 • Various


Words linked to "Kleist" :   dramatist, playwright, Heinrich von Kleist


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