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  • There is no lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indigna - tion among the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is but a step between the crime and the dock.

    Sole Music 2010

  • Si cui intueri vacet quae patiuntur superstitiosi, invenies tam indecora honestis, tam indigna liberis, tam dissimilia sanis, ut nemo fuerit dubitaturus furere eos, si cum paucioribus fuerent.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Más de un lector pensará que el hay(na)ku es un experimento banal y que su traducción es indigna pero la verdad es otra: quien lea, escriba y traduzca un hay(na)ku se encontrará con las mismas dificultades técnicas con las que se encontraría al leer, escribir y traducir un soneto o una sestina.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • American Heritage | American Pie Em Itália, a pizza sempre foi considerada uma comida de pobres, pouco nobre e indigna de agraciar os palatos de quem podia comer bem.

    Leituras Artur 2006

  • "Mas é o povo cuja conduta me indigna: como podeis ficar aí sem dar palavra nem dirigir censuras a este punhado de pretendentes, sem pôr termo aos seus excessos; e todavia sois o número!"

    2500 anos Artur 2005

  • Vox profectò filijs Dei non indigna, animæ, cum mortis acerbitate luctantis summum solatium arguens.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Vox profect� filijs Dei non indigna, anim�, cum mortis acerbitate luctantis summum solatium arguens.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • There is no lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indigna - tion among the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is but a step between the crime and the dock.

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950

  • There is no lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indigna - tion among the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is but a step between the crime and the dock.

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950

  • Now he answered for all of them, a little louder than necessary in a voice harsh with indigna - tion.

    Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ] 1943

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