Dornbirn

/ ˈdɔrnbɪrn /

noun

1. a city in W Austria, in Vorarlberg. Pop: 42 301 (2001)

Example Sentences

The other cornerstone holders include Cheer Selection Ltd. with plans to acquire $40 million of shares, and Dornbirn Inc. which intends to spend $25 million.

From BusinessWeek

The name Dornbirn is a collective appellation for four villages—Dornbirn, Hatlerdorf, Oberdorf and Haselstauden—which straggle over a distance of about 3 m.

From Project Gutenberg

A certain Englishman named Rigges, travelling by post, arrived at the torrent of Dornbirn a short time before noon, and while waiting there for the arrival of some peasants to accompany his carriage through the stream, was joined by a foot-traveller, by whom he was speedily recognized.

From Project Gutenberg

Wishing, partly from motives of enjoyment, partly from economy, to avoid the route most frequented by travellers, they had taken the road through Zurich and the valley of the Upper Rhine, and had now reached the little village of Dornbirn in the Vorarlberg—a spot of singular beauty, in the midst of a completely pastoral country.

From Project Gutenberg

A great fright and wetting—that was all, for the time being, until the gentlemen, although they had promised not to say a word on the subject, having whispered it to this friend and that, leaving no part uncolored, the town of Dornbirn grew scandalized at a mad peasant's audacity.

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