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Stories and pictures of the "Sherlock Holmes canino" filled the front pages of newspapers, and TV crews dogged the dog under the watchful eye of a 24-hour presidential armed guard.
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So long was this feeling kept alive, that thirteen years afterwards -- viz. in 1835 -- the mob broke into the place where one of the two animals to be divided was abiding, and baited him, in defiance of the authorities, in the market-place; one enthusiastic amateur, tradition relates, actually lying on the ground and seizing the miserable brute by the nostril, _more canino_, with his own human teeth!
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton
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He was the only and chosen companion of Landor in his walks; but few of the Florentines who stopped to remark the _vecchio con quel bel canino_, knew how great was the man upon whom they thus commented.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various
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She barked and I stared; she trotted consequentially up and snuffed _more canino_, and I went nearer: it never moved, and on coming quite close I saw as it were the _image_ of a terrier, a something that made me think of an idea unrealized; the rough, short, scrubby heather and dead grass, made a color and a coat just like those of a good
Spare Hours John Brown 1846
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Carissime -- Scribis, ut nummos scilicet epistolarios solvam et postremo in Tartara abeam: immo tu potius Tartaricum (ut aiunt) deprehendisti, qui me vernaculâ meâ linguâ pro scribâ conductitio per tot annos satis eleganter usum ad Latinè impure et canino fere ore latrandum per tuasmet epistolas benè compositas et concinnatas percellere studueris.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805
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© 2001 by the Archaeological Institute of America www. archaeology.org/0111/newsbriefs/canino. html
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In his "canino-classic" poem already mentioned -- entitled "Sodalitas
The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann
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Gear Diary 2009
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Every so often I try something like that and end up with: "Sorry but this is only ... canino: Cover screen protection is nice but Wow $100 vs say $49 Otterbox … price will come down from 100 in this ...
Gear Diary 2009
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