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Copernicus in his _Famosi problematis de telluris motu vel quiete hactenus optata solutio_ (1631), and against Lansberg in his _Responsio pro telluris quiete_ (1634).
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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After 1945 most were in a daze for quiete some time.
What Was the New Deal?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I could have strode forward and swept the lot of them from the ledge; but wishing to show them that my intentions were quiete peaceful, I raised my hands and took several backward steps.
"He Who Shrank" by Henry Hasse, part 6 Johnny Pez 2010
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I could have strode forward and swept the lot of them from the ledge; but wishing to show them that my intentions were quiete peaceful, I raised my hands and took several backward steps.
Archive 2010-06-01 Johnny Pez 2010
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Deh one alzo laiks dustbusted ef ai hab quiete dusbuzzer….sez id tikkles!
Do not get wet…. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Note 89: Must., pp. 15 — 16, esp.chap. 44: "Quomodo mense septimo agendae sunt gravidae mulieres? in omnibus patienter et quiete, ne nimia gestatione pecus iam perfectum foris excutiatur, siquidem etiam et septimani nasci possunt."
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Ubi verior contemplatio quam in solitudine? ubi studium solidius quam in quiete?
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Animus lavatur inde a curis multa quiete et tranquillitate fruens.
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Adde Heliconiadum comttes \ quorun) unus Ho - merus lofo Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis fopitu 'quiete'ft:
T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Titus Lucretius Carus , Thomas Creech , George Gordon Byron Byron 1770
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And these with huntyng and foulyng in sondrie wise, so kiepe vndre the beastes and hurtefull foules: that whear other wise the housebande menne should in siede tyme, and towarde harueste, be muche acloyed34 and hyndered by the fowles, and theim selues alwaie by the beastes, the countrie is quiete from al suche annoyance.
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