Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Linnean genus of Vermes.
- noun A genus of South American bats, of the family Emballonuridæ, having the forehead prominent, the tail ending in the interfemoral membrane, and the following dental formula: incisors and premolars 2 in each upper and 3 in each lower half-jaw, canines 1 in each, and molars 3 in each upper and lower half-jaw. There is but one species, F. horrens.
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Examples
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Patients suffering from vesical calculus are always constipated, and the dysuria may increase to the degree called furia,
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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El irrita a toda la ciudad con furia a los salvajes que quieren hundir la educación pública en un infierno de terror y destrucción.
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El irrita a toda la ciudad con furia a los salvajes que quieren hundir la educación pública en un infierno de terror y destrucción.
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El pacto funcionó de maravilla hasta los años 70, cuando la violencia provocada por la furia del Estado se desbordó y Eugenio Garza Sada, uno de los pilares de la iniciativa privada mexicana, fue asesinado por un comando guerrillero.
��Cu��ndo nos daremos cuenta de que M��xico es s��lo nuestro? 2009
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Dicen que sus chillidos infantiles competían en furia con los truenos del exterior.
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Out of furia comes creation, inspiration, originality, passion, but also violence, pain, pure unafraid destruction, the giving and receiving of blows from which we never recover.
In the Emperor's Dream House Oates, Joyce Carol 2008
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Dios quiera y las tormentas detengan un rato su furia.
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What has con furia, — con strepito, — or any other hurly burly whatever to do with harmony?
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Age igitur mi gnate, sis matri cibus, sis prædonibus furia, sis communi hominum vitæ fabula, quæ res vna ad Iudæorum calamitates deesse videtur.
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Age igitur mi gnate, sis matri cibus, sis pr鎑onibus furia, sis communi hominum vit� fabula, qu� res vna ad Iud鎜rum calamitates deesse videtur.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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