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Right now, I'm about to get some P. atro.n in my system.
crownroyal Diary Entry crownroyal 2009
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Wen masturred dat skill, I getz ridd uv dis atro… hideo… sooper-fuglee chare!
Universe - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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And I may speak, as a playwright who have killed my own heroine, and had my share of the plausus in the atro.
The Virginians 2006
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Mr. SIDES: Well, I-- I think anyone who experiences an atro -- an atrocity like this, it's just very, very difficult for them to talk about it.
Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission 2001
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_P. _ atro-fusca; antennis, facie anticè, antennis, mandibulis, tibiis tarsisque ferrugineis; alis subhyalinis.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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_ Nigro-viridis; capite antennisque testaceis, articulo tertio brevi, arista plumosa; abdomine atro; pedibus testaceis, femoribus nigris; alis albo limpidis, strigis duabus apiceque nigro-cinereis, fasciis tribus satis nigricantibus; halteribus albis.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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A similar sense of _ater_ is seen at Hor _Epod_ VI 15-16 'an si quis _atro_ dente me petiuerit,/inultus ut flebo puer'; Lindsay Watson _ad loc_ (in an unpublished University of Toronto dissertation) cites Hor _Ep_ I xix 30
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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_ Atra, antennis subpectinatis, abdomine fasciis luteis, alis anticis fascia exteriore recta non obliqua testacea; posticis ochraceis atro marginatis.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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_ Aureo-viridis, vertice cyaneo-purpureo, facie pectoreque argenteis, antennis, pedibus halteribusque testaceis, abdomine apicem versus atro fasciis duabus cupreis, alis subcinereis apice nigris.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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= Paxillus atro = tomentosus = (Batsch) Fr. -- This plant is not very common.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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