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"When my Grossvater selig was sixty-eight he gets married for the third time yet."

From The Competitive Nephew by Glass, Montague

As soon as they begin to perform music they muddle matters, and feel unsafe all round, unless it be in "Ewig, selig," or at best in "Lord Sabaoth!"

From On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music, by Dannreuther, Edward

But Ma selig always had everything she wanted.

From Buttered Side Down: Stories by Ferber, Edna