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Examples
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"Don't let it dig at you, my friend," said the aristocratic lepus.
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The milieu also includes figures such as Emperor Norton, Queen Victoria and the "disease" lepus.
Archive 2009-02-01 Greg Tannahill 2009
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The milieu also includes figures such as Emperor Norton, Queen Victoria and the "disease" lepus.
Diana, Warrior Princess Greg Tannahill 2009
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“Commentaries” puts it induces the persuasion that by lepus he means not the hare, but the rabbit, as the former would scarcely be domesticated.
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Some parsons "give Venus the tithes that belong to God"; others are the terror of hares: "lepus visa pericla fugit," and hearken to no chime but the "vociferations" of the hounds [619]; others trade.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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According to some this natural timidity is responsible for their name; but others apparently better informed contend that it is derived from the large number of arctic hares (lepus arcticus) to be found in their country, and the aboriginal designations of some of their ethnic divisions confirms this opinion.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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_Dandæus_ dixi, et tu dicis _dandy_; ergo tu es lepus, non ego -- Ah, ha!
Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885
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The rabbit or hare (_lepus variabilis_) abounds in the valley of the
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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THE rabbit (lepus minor, cauda abrupta, pupillis atris) are pretty common, and no ways differing from those of Pennsylvania and the northern states.
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After Mr. Brackenridge joined me, we saw a large hare, lepus variabilis, the first I had noticed, and also a number of wolves in several directions, and returning through an extensive colony of prairie dogs, we regained the boats.
Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811 1819
chained_bear commented on the word lepus
"Lepus, the Hare, in astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere, containing, according to the Britannic catalogue, 19 stars."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 221
October 11, 2008
tbtabby commented on the word lepus
This word was made infamous my a hilariously bad horror film.
February 1, 2011