Moselle

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• Confluentia," whose threads of liquidity are eruditely, yet romantically, intertangled to represent the confluence of the Rhine and the Moselle; and "The Headless Horseman," a masterpiece of burlesque weirdness, representing the wild pursuit of Ichabod Crane and the final hurling of the awful head, -- a pumpkin, some say. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
• On some wine lists in the English-speaking world all German wines, other than those regarded as Mosel (or often ‘Moselle’), appear somewhat imprecisely under the heading ‘Rhine’.
• Meuse and the territory and cities on the Moselle, on both sides of the Rhine, and in Jura, that is to say Friesland, the country of the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
• [9] "Ce matin j'ai appris par une estafette que les ennemis avaient joint l'Electeur de Bavière avec 26,000 hommes, et que M. de Villeroi a passé la Meuse avec la meilleure partie de l'armée des Pays Bas, et qu'il poussait sa marche en toute diligence vers la Moselle, de sorte que, sans un prompt sécours, l'empire court risque d'être entièrement abimé. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
• The Germans had not mounted any defense at all on the east bank of the Seine, but that left the Meuse, Moselle, Roser , Saar, Waal, and Rhine Rivers and their tributaries to go.
• With light rain dampening parts of the course, and a buffeting wind gusting off the river Moselle, back wheels skittered on corners and bounced on the cobbled avenues.
• In that district there is no city or fortress to be seen except that near Confluentes; [60] a place so named because there the river Moselle becomes mingled with the Rhine; there is also the village of Rheinmagen, and likewise a single tower near Cologne. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens
• He found many of the villages of the Moselle region dirty and unappealing, but the countryside often attractive.
• An official in Koblenz, where the Moselle joins the Rhine, said the city was well prepared to cope with the swelling rivers. Man Feared Dead As Melting Snow Floods Germany
• Ripuarian Franks, settled, the latter in the east of Belgica, on the banks of the Moselle and the Rhine; the former toward the west, between the Meuse, the ocean, and the Somme. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04