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  • [6268] Salisburiensis adviseth, ne si alteram aspexeris, mox eam sordere putes, as the Knight in Chaucer, that was married to an old woman,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Nullum locum putes sine teste, semper adesse Deum cogita.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Istae se statim umbrae offerunt tanto squalore et in omni fere diverticulo tanta macie, ut illas jamjam moribundas putes.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Comme j'dis a ma mere (qui m'a accompagné) ce sont les groupie du perceur - ___ - genre jupe a ras la moule fardé comme des putes et qui s'colle apres le beau perceur aux aires de page centrale de magazine gay ..

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005

  • The general inability of men to develop successful machinery to resolve dis - putes and prevent war meant that countries had to rely upon their own resources.

    INTERNATIONAL PEACE WARREN F. KUEHL 1968

  • United States had started this revolution in attitudes when it reawakened interest in the idea of resolving differences through arbitral processes, and an increas - ing number of governments subsequently resolved dis - putes in this way.

    INTERNATIONAL PEACE WARREN F. KUEHL 1968

  • Modern Mind (1930), and Karl Llewellyn in a famous statement defined law as “what officials do about dis - putes” (The Bramble Bush [1930], p. 3).

    CONCEPT OF LAW GRAHAM HUGHES 1968

  • * [1140] Quæro abs te, quando aut quomodo putes filium esse generatum?

    Christologia 1616-1683 1965

  • And the like in their subtlety in judging; for who would think he were no Christian that should say these two speeches “matula putes” and “matula putet,” or “ollae fervere” and “ollam fervere” were not both good Latin, unless their wisdoms had taught us the contrary? who had delivered the church from such mists of error, which yet no one ever met with, had they not come out with some university seal for it?

    In Praise of Folly c. 1466-1536 1958

  • The error could easily be induced by the final _s_ of the preceding _putes_; compare _Med_ 55-56

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

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