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  • You must try and get the 'bloss' of the Irish on your tongue.

    My New Curate P.A. Sheehan

  • October 25th, 2009 at 3: 09 am lol das singen und beatboxen gleichzeitig is der hammer … wie macht der typ das bloss gstar0103

    Beatbox @ ESL Pro Series 13 Finals « Esl Videos « Videos « Literacy News 2009

  • My volunteers this year have been arugula, amaranth, purslane, kalanchoe bloss. in red and yellow and a grass (unknown) the original plant of which I dug up from the roadside ( there were loads and it was self seeded, not planted there) I want that muhly grass!

    The Volunteer Gravel State « Fairegarden 2009

  • Kant repeatedly refers to the sheer or merely subjective status ( "bloss subjektiv") of the experience of the aesthetic (99, 29), so one can wonder, at the outset, how this sort of experience is even available to philosophy.

    Subjecticity (On Kant and the Texture of Romanticism) 2005

  • One moment now, if I foreshorten the bloss on your bleather.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • How your lonely bloss has longed for a note from you!!!

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • How your lonely bloss has longed for a note from you!!!

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • The leaves and bloss begin to shew themselves on the apple

    John Adams diary 1, 18 November 1755 - 29 August 1756 1961

  • [47] Eckhart, 513. 12. says: Whoso wisheth to know God as He is, must be empty or naked (bloss) of all art (Swer Got kennen wil als er ist, der muoz bloz sin von aller kunst.) [48] John xvi.

    The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910

  • While working on the Mass in D, he had in mind composing another mass, as is evidenced by the following memorandum in the sketches of the Agnus Dei: “Das Kyrie in der neuen Messe bloss mit blasenden Instrumenten und Orgel.”

    Beethoven A Character Study Fischer, George A 1905

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  • A term of endearment still used today.

    June 13, 2010