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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Latin plural of crux.

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Examples

  • But while I was at the Lutheran church this morning during the Palm Sunday servcie, I SOOOOO,,, missed the Domingo de Ramos in Xalapa, with so many people selling "cruces" and other objects made of "palma" to be blessed by the priest (or even better the Bishop) so that we can put them in our homes and business to feel the Lords presence during a year.

    Domingo de Ramos in Spokane 2006

  • But while I was at the Lutheran church this morning during the Palm Sunday servcie, I SOOOOO,,, missed the Domingo de Ramos in Xalapa, with so many people selling "cruces" and other objects made of "palma" to be blessed by the priest (or even better the Bishop) so that we can put them in our homes and business to feel the Lords presence during a year.

    Domingo de Ramos in Spokane 2006

  • It seems to me that, notwithstanding its peculiar idiosyncrasies, and the various 'cruces' that it presents, it will, upon closer examination, be found to fall within those general laws that govern the legal course of testamentary disposition.

    Mr. Meeson's Will Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Filed in On the Road, Ruminations and tagged las cruces, rhode island

    Leaving Las Cruces – Part 1 | Living the Liminal 2008

  • Filed in Photos and tagged dripping springs, hiking, las cruces, new mexico

    On the Trail to Dripping Springs | Living the Liminal 2008

  • Filed in General and tagged ann radcliffe, las cruces, new mexico

    SitRep on New Mexico | Living the Liminal 2008

  • There are many people who feel that justice was not served with the first trial, and they want to see it happen this time, if he is guilty. kevin las cruces

    O.J. trial: Judge on fire 2008

  • A good serious play must therefore be founded on one of the passionate cruces of life, where duty and inclination come nobly to the grapple; and the same is true of what I call, for that reason, the dramatic novel.

    Memories and Portraits 2005

  • I have been forced in (since I began to write to you) to blatter to Fanny on the subject of my heroine, there being two cruces as to her life and history: how came she alone? and how far did she go with the

    Vailima Letters 2005

  • Wright attempts to develop some points of contention, (or ˜realism-relevant cruces™ as he calls them) over which a realist and anti-realist could disagree.

    Realism Miller, Alexander 2005

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