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He brought back to Philadelphia enough seasoned Carpathian spruce and Tirolese maple to make 300 fiddles�which, at the rate of four new violins a year, will take a long time.

From Time Magazine Archive

France's Jean Borotra, the Bounding Basque of tennis fame, bounded down a Tirolese road, accompanied by a bribed German guard and romped into the ranks of an American battalion.

From Time Magazine Archive

On crisp Tirolese evenings they all gathered in the hall of their mountain castle to sing and play hoary Latin masses and lusty Tirolese folk songs.

From Time Magazine Archive

The life of the closely related peasant stock of Austria has found hardly at any other hands than those of the Tirolese Karl Sch�nherr an equally unadorned depiction.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various

Thus, too, in one of the Tirolese stories already mentioned the husband lies in wait for his wife when she returns, as usual, to comb her little girl's hair on a Saturday.

From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Hartland, Edwin Sidney