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  • As a Democrat and avide Obama/Dem Unite supporter – Paul is actually a respectful Republican.

    Paul set to hold separate rally during Republican convention 2008

  • Meanwhile I am off for home, partly walking, partly running, and having reached home I take a bath and give myself a rub; 248 and then I breakfast — a repast which leaves me neither empty nor replete,249 and will suffice to last me through the day. pransus non avide, quantum interpellet inani ventre diem durare.

    Oeconomicus 2007

  • At the first publishing of this book, (which [123] Probus of Persius satires), editum librum continuo mirari homines, atque avide deripere caeperunt, I may in some sort apply to this my work.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ce qui laisse prévoir de sérieuses difficultés à notre ami Lacoude si avide de s'enrichir …

    Will it be Say or Walras? - The Austrian Economists 2007

  • News are generally welcome to all our ears, avide audimus, aures enim hominum novitate laetantur ([3286] as Pliny observes), we long after rumour to hear and listen to it, [3287] densum humeris bibit aure vulgus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Subjick staited ag'in so 's to avide all mistaiks.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 Various

  • Let them avide bad kumpany and keep out of the Palass; and above all, let them mind their bissnesses on dri land, and never cast their fortunes on any _main_, like their unfortinet

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 Various

  • Une volonté puissante, avide à revendiquer des responsabilités, alors que d'autres reculent sans cesse devant les responsabilités, s'enivre presque toujours d'elle-même.

    Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916

  • Ye can make ye'ersilf as brave as ye want an 'as cool, ye avide mussin' ye'er clothes, ye flavor with danger to suit th 'taste, an' ye get a good dale more applause an 'get it quicker thin th' other kind iv hayro.

    Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • Homines autem carni obnoxii, qui Spiritu Dei carent, hoc etiam bello carent; vitiositati suae obsequuntur; et quo Satan, et prava libido impellit, eo avide sine ulla poenitentia ruunt.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

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