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  • She had set out for the north pole because Sammy was going there, and the longer she went "polin '" with him, the stronger became her curiosity to see the pole and to know what it looked like.

    The Great Stone of Sardis Frank Richard Stockton 1868

  • An 'with that, never waitin' for me to decline, he makes a run for his boat an 'away he goes, polin' up river like mad.

    Too Much Gold 2010

  • An 'with that, never waitin' for me to decline, he makes a run for his boat an 'away he goes, polin' up river like mad.

    TOO MUCH GOLD 2010

  • As in, you are polin folks on whether to include more 2D cakes...

    Sunday Sweets: Transformers Jen 2009

  • And, because all the churches had their presbyters ordained in the same manner, where the word is constitute, as ina katasteses kata polin presbuterous, "For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest constitute elders in every city," 325 we are to understand the same thing; namely, that he should call the faithful together, and ordain them presbyters by plurality of suffrages.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Kuz, it be polin seezin nowe and I kan barly see az it iz, nevarmin kitiz tak ovar werld.

    we iz gonna take over the wurld! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007

  • Among the most characteristic are the following: athuta pallakon spermata; amorphoi edrai; osa axiomata pros archontas; oi kata polin kairoi; muthos, used in several places of ‘the discourse about laws;’ and connected with this the frequent use of paramuthion and paramutheisthai in the general sense of ‘address,’

    Laws 2006

  • Yet however many lines he may have spun, Aeschylus kept returning to one verse in particular: theoi polin soizousi Pallados theas.

    The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

  • Yet however many lines he may have spun, Aeschylus kept returning to one verse in particular: theoi polin soizousi Pallados theas.

    The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

  • [Greek: andras men kteinoysi, polin de te pyr amathynei tekna de t 'alloi agoysi, bathyzônoys te gynaikas.]

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various

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