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- noun Plural form of
fere .
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Examples
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So the Kazis concluded the wedding contract and offered up prayers for the happiness and prosperity of the wedded feres; after which the
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Quod male fers, assuesce; feres bene — accustom thyself to it, and it will be tolerable at last.
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They were risking their feres, but that was part and parcel of survival out here; you could live a long time, but you had to eat along the way, and nobody's cash lasted forever.
The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992
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In the winter storm 'tis useless to think of the sailor on his slippery shrouds; but the "outland eerie cattle" he teaches his feres to care for in the drifting snow.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various
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Quam vero indignum visum est? at qui pol hodie non feres, ni genua confricantur.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Nunc demum? tamen numquam hinc feres argenti nummum, nisi me dare iusserit Demaenetus.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Come we hence ever scatheless,/trusty feres we yet shall be.
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914
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Oedipodis tu solus eras, haec praemia morum ac sceleris, violente, feres! nos poscimus annum; sed moror. 'haec audax etiamnum in limine retro vociferans iam tunc impulsa per agmina praeceps evolat.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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"Se dix vos ait, bel enfant, si feres! et tenes x sous que j'ai ci en une borse!"
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878
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So the Kazis concluded the wedding contract and offered up prayers for the happiness and prosperity of the wedded feres; after which the Wazir arose and, fetching the gifts and rarities and precious things, laid them all before the King.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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