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they had had, use nedostávalo (dostávat/), with gen. of thing wanted.

any, žádný. See p. 2 9 for an ex- planation of this expression.

belonging to the Church, církevní.

by, od. See the use of this to express the agent.

official, úřad, s.m.

community, obecenstvo, s.n. (ob- ecný).

to call, nazýváti. collectively, indiscriminately, vesměs.

Hussites, Husity (fr. Jan Hus,

the reformer), in realit)', skutkem (fr. skutek) ;

instance of the case of a noun

being used for an adverb, descendant, potomek, s.m. a brother, bratr, m. For irreg.

plur. see remarks on 1st

declension, p. 8.

EXERCISE IX.

The part of the imperial army which was collected for the leading of Gotze from various garrisons, and to which the army from Silesia was about to be added as a defence against the Saxons, was annihilated by Arnim before the junction took place, in the battle fought at Nimburg. Then came the Elector himself to Prague and stayed there some months as in a country permanently annexed to his dominions. Under the protection of the Saxons the Bohemian emigrants returned in great num- bers to their country, and took possession of their former estates. Henry of Thurn, now in the military service of the King of Sweden, and Wenceslaus of Roupov, the Bohemian high chancellor in the reign of the Palatine Frederick, returned also, and with much ceremony caused the twelve heads of their friends and comrades, who had been beheaded, to be taken down from the tower on the bridge and to be buried in the Týn church. Preparations were also made for the renewal of Protestant worship in the churches in the country. Before everything the Jesuits were again banished from Prague and