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Ostend

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Ostend: see Oostende Oostende (ōstĕn`də), Fr. Ostende, city (1991 pop. 68,500), West Flanders prov., W Belgium, on the North Sea.
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Times are altered at Ostend now; of the Britons who go thither, very few look like lords, or act like those members of our hereditary aristocracy.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
Imagine, my lord, that when putting into Ostend to sell the few mackerel we had caught, I saw the ex-king walking on the downs waiting for his horses, which were to take him to the Hague.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Finding nothing to detain us about the spot where Ostend once had stood, we set out up the coast in search of the mouth of the River Rhine, which I purposed ascending in search of civilized man.
The Lost Continent by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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