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  • "Carus," called Sir Peter from the hall, "if Lady Coleville has my pistols, she must render them to you on the instant."

    The Reckoning 1899

  • "Carus," she said, leaning too near me and waving her satin painted fan, "is it true you have deserted me for a fairer conquest?"

    The Reckoning 1899

  • "Carus," he said under his breath, "you should enter the lists, you rogue."

    The Reckoning 1899

  • "Carus," he said, patting his horse's mane, "you will lay a bet for the honor of the family this time -- will you not?"

    The Reckoning 1899

  • "Carus," said Sir Peter, fork poised, glass in hand, "it's a thousand on the main, a hundred on each battle, and I must win.

    The Reckoning 1899

  • "Carus," she said at last, "let us keep them, anyhow, and never, never spend them.

    The Reckoning 1899

  • "Carus," she said, "you are wonderfully attractive to me.

    The Reckoning 1899

  • "Carus," says he, "our dearest emperor, was confined by sickness to his bed, when a furious tempest arose in the camp.

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • "Carus," says he, "our dearest emperor, was confined by sickness to his bed, when a furious tempest arose in the camp.

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • The Roman poet and philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus, about a half-century before Christ, called the Alps the waste places of the world, where nature had swept its rubbish.

    Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland Richard Bangs 2011

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