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  • A club like the 4-H Club, or the Teen Center of yore, with its pingpong table, and sock-hop room, or was this mosque that the boys regarded as a "club" rather like another "club," but one with politico-religious rather than the mercenary considerations of the assorted Siculo-American uomini d'onore, that is, the Ravenite Social Club where John Gotti used to, with his friends and wise guys, innocently socialize?

    FrontPage Magazine Hugh 2010

  • Studi di storiografia filosofica in onore di Ada Lamacchia.

    Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol) 2009

  • Studi in onore di Marcello Gigante, Naples: Bibliopolis.

    Epicurus Konstan, David 2009

  • See Pisani, Studi linguistici in onore di Vittore Pisani, vol.2 1969, p.552.

    Back to business: emphatic particles and verbal extensions 2008

  • Sort of like a Japanese college acquaintance of mine who would use the English pronoun 'you' when talking to me in Japanese, because none of the implications of omae, kimi, anata, otaku, onore, kisama, etc., were quite appropriate to kohai-senpai relationship.

    languagehat.com: MALAY PRONOUNS. 2005

  • Studi in onore di Settimo Cipriani, vol. 1, pp. 623-44.

    Hamilton: "A Liturgy of Reform" 1996

  • Dante is perhaps the first to use the term in a vernacu - lar language exactly in its modern sense: tu se 'solo colui da cu' io tolsi lo bello stilo che m'ha fatto onore.

    STYLE IN LITERATURE R. A. SAYCE 1968

  • PHINA, and others, Nel primo centario del cardinali Angelo Mai, atti della solenne Accademia tenustasi in suo onore il 7 Marzo 1882

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • "Ne bella! si fai un onore a passare di qua," he called waving his hand and smiling.

    Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories Sherwood Anderson 1908

  • "Oh! tropp 'onore, signor -- tropp' onore!" and thus I left him, standing still bareheaded on the deck of his little vessel, with a kindly light on his brown face like the reflection of a fadeless sunbeam.

    Vendetta: a story of one forgotten Marie Corelli 1889

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