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I appreciate clever wordplay and double entende most — something which George Carlin used to be good at before he zapped too many of his brain cells from chemical abuse and became a bitter old man –, but am not above sick humor.
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Guardian | Russia threatening new cold war over missile defence Enriquecida graças ao dinheiro da exploração do petróleo e gás natural, a Rússia rearma-se para fazer frente ao que entende como uma ameaça às suas fronteiras - a expansão da NATO para o leste europeu e os planos americanos de colocar míssies do seu sistema de defesa na Polónia.
Leituras Artur 2007
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House, or Churche, or any other place wher they entende to sitte, no man entreth with his shoes on.
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Yf [thou] entende to please god & woldest obteyne grace to fulfyll the same two thyng [es] ben to the necessary.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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Good lorde I haue good purpose & desyre with thyn helpe to be ryght ware herafter that I fall not in to synne/& I entende to flee the occasions after
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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[Sidenote: Apophasis.] _Expeditio_, expedicion, when many reasons rehearsed vp, wherby a thynge myghte be done or not, the other are taken away, and one left that we entende, thus: It muste needes bee that thys controuersie touching the sacrament must stand eyther vpon the much pressyng and rigour of the wordes; or vpon the meanynge and vnderstandynge of them.
A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry
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He had never study in new fabrics nor buildings, but eschewed to set thereon his courage, which ever he would have free from all bodily griefs, so that he might more freely entende, and more continually, to the lesson.
The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900
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Un seul précepte de morale peut tenir lieu de tous les autres, c'est celui-ci: Ne fais, ni ne dis jamais rien que tu ne veuilles que tout le monde voie et entende.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 Various 1840
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Elle ne veux voyre ni entende parlay de vous: pourtant elle ne fay qu'en parlay milfoy par jour.
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Un coup imprevu l'a frappè, nous trouvons dans nos cœurs une vide semblable a celui qui trouve un amant qui a perdu l'objet de sa passion; tout se qu'il voit, tout ce qu'il entende renouvelle sa douleur.
Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. Archibald Alison 1829
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