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  • Philonium Romanum, which Hamech an Arabian, and Philonius a Roman, long since composed, but crasse as the rest.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • On the concert I need not dwell; the reader would not care to have my impressions thereanent: and, indeed, it would not be worth while to record them, as they were the impressions of an ignorance crasse.

    Villette 2003

  • Item litteram C quidam in quibusdam dictionibus non latine ecferunt, sed ita crasse, ut non discernas quid dicant: ut puta siquis dicat _sic ludit_, ita hoc loquitur ut putes eum in secunda parte orationis _cludere_ dixisse, non _ludere_: et item si contra dicat illud contrarium putabis.

    The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord

  • The reader would not care to have my impressions thereanent; and, indeed, it would not be worth while to record them, as they were the impressions of an ignorance crasse.

    Foreign Words. 1908

  • Roerer calls them a novelty, _recens excussa, _ recently printed, from which it appears that the _tabulae catechismum Lutheri brevissime simul et crasse complectentes, _ to which he referred on January 20, did not contain the Sacraments.

    Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894

  • The difference between the two works is rather indicated by the words _brevissime simul et crasse.

    Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894

  • Praeter haec justo Dei judicio relinquimus omnes curiosas, sannis virulentis tinctas, et blasphemas quaestiones, quae honeste, pie, et sine gravi offensione recitari nequeunt, aliosque sermones, quando de supernaturali et caelesti mysterio hujus sacramenti crasse, carnaliter,

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • On the concert I need not dwell; the reader would not care to have my impressions thereanent: and, indeed, it would not be worth while to record them, as they were the impressions of an ignorance crasse.

    Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835

  • The darkened scum that rose to the top of the butter and stuck in a ring to the sides of the pot as the butter cooked was la crasse du beurre, or "butter's dirt."

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • The darkened scum that rose to the top of the butter and stuck in a ring to the sides of the pot as the butter cooked was la crasse du beurre, or "butter's dirt."

    NPR Topics: News 2010

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