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Adverb
an Ort und Stelle
- in situ, on the spot
1924, Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain], volume 1, Berlin: S. Fischer, page 223:Er war dann nicht mehr in seinen ursprünglichen Lebenskreis zurückgekehrt, sondern an Ort und Stelle geblieben: gewiß auch darum, weil er sich von dem Grabe nicht trennen mochte; […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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