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When Charlie Sheen went public about the 911 cover-up, Air America Radio stood down just like Norad and didn’t even mention a thing about itâ€that was the limus test.
Think Progress » Air America To Declare Bankruptcy, But Progressive Radio Remains Strong 2006
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Five Adjectives in - ilis form the Superlative by adding - limus to the
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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The following six adjectives in «-lis» form the comparative regularly; but the superlative is formed by adding «-limus» to the base of the positive.
Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900
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Name the six adjectives that form the superlative in «-limus».
Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900
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Me circum limus niger et deformis arundo Cocyti tardaque palus inamabilis unda Alligat, et novies Styx interfusa coercet.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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Me circum limus niger et deformis arundo Cocyti tardaque palus inamabilis unda Alligat, et novies Styx interfusa coercet.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866
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But to us it appears -- that when the true modern idea of mud was in view, _limus_ was not the word used.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822
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To this learned Parrian dissertation on mud, there cannot be much reasonably to object, except its length in the first place; and, secondly, that we ourselves exceedingly doubt the common interpretation of _limus_.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822
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That the veins & tracts of limus in the bowels of those mountains also drying & consequently shrinking, crack't & left many cavities some dry others filled with water.
Reasons to Believe - 2009
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Further one might suppose that after our Chaos was separated from ye rest, by the same principle wch promoted its separation (wch might be gravitation towards a center) it shrunk closer together & at length a great part of it condensing subsided in ye form of a muddy water or limus to compose this terraqueous globe.
Reasons to Believe - 2009
biocon commented on the word limus
Limus = mud, slime (OED).
May 14, 2015