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From the ceiling, lamps hang down that look like giant, translucent alien ova and sideways ceilings fans with wide paddles spin lazily, less for functionally circulating air, more for fashionably making you feel like you can breathe in what will eventually become very claustro-crowded.
Archive 2005-12-01 2005
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From the ceiling, lamps hang down that look like giant, translucent alien ova and sideways ceilings fans with wide paddles spin lazily, less for functionally circulating air, more for fashionably making you feel like you can breathe in what will eventually become very claustro-crowded.
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A claustro huius templi extrinsecus in Aquilonem habetur decora
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A claustro huius templi extrinsecus in Aquilonem habetur decora
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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I wake feeling claustro, those times, after spending a dream lifetime in a world of white nothing that stretches on forever.
dragonwench Diary Entry dragonwench 2003
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Monachus in claustro non valet ova duo; sed quando est extra, bene valet triginta.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Monachus in claustro non valet ova duo; sed quando est extra, bene valet triginta.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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This last afforded a view of a stately oak in the garden outside, which blocked out a good deal of the light and contributed to the study's atmosphere of claustro - phobic and depressing dinginess.
Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000
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The tall warrior remembered that in the past he'd always felt claustro-phobic in these chambers, but perhaps that, too, was part of Habbar-Akuk's success.
Emperor of Ansalon Niles, Douglas 1993
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[308] "Sedens igitur in claustro pluries fatigatus, sensu habetato, virtutibus frustratus, pessimis cogitationibus sæpe sauciatus, tum propter lectionum longitudinem ac orationum lassitudinem, propter vanas jactantias et opera pessima in sæculo præhabita ...."
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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