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Spree  A view of the Spree River flowing through former East Berlin. The Spree connects the inland harbour in the city via a series of waterways with the Baltic Sea. | River in eastern Germany; length 365 km/226 mi. The Spree rises on the borders of Bohemia and the Land (administrative region) of Saxony, and after flowing generally north and northwest joins the River Havel to the west of Berlin, at Spandau. On its course, the Spree passes through Bautzen, Cottbus, and Berlin. A marshy area in its valley near Cottbus is called the Spreewald. |
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| Why, sold off in a jiffy, and no character, and I might find myself slaved about under a butcher's boy, or worked to death at some seaside place where no one cared for me, except to find out how fast I could go, or be flogged along in some cart with three or four great men in it going out for a Sunday spree, as I have often seen in the place I lived in before I came here; no," said he, shaking his head, "I hope I shall never come to that. They would put up in one of the lodging-houses in John Street; Philip had never been to Oxford, but Griffiths had talked to him about it so much that he knew exactly where they would go; and they would dine at the Clarendon: Griffiths had been in the habit of dining there when he went on the spree. I wonder you waste time coming over here on the spree when you've got a piece of business like that to look after. |
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