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A temp-rari spays shuttel serbis iz being provided in teh mean-wile.
you know the rules. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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One of these is in the Spanish National Library in Madrid (N.º 10069), a second in the National Library in Florence (Banco rari 20) and two in the Escorial (B.j.2 and T.J.1).
Archive 2009-07-01 Lu 2009
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Nuovo plico di ogni sort di tinture Arrichito di rari, e bellissimi segreti per colorire animali, vegetabili e minerali.
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Barotius, in Italy; Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.
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Prop III i 35-36 'meque inter seros laudabit Roma nepotes:/illum _post cineres_ auguror esse diem', Martial I i 2-6 'Martialis ... cui, lector studiose, quod dedisti/uiuenti decus atque sentienti,/rari _post cineres_ habent poetae' and Martial VIII xxxviii 16 'hoc et _post cineres_ erit tributum'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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I poured out what professed to be cream, but proved very low-spirited milk, in which a few disheartened strawberries appeared _rari nantes_.
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Physicists experience that longing for religion natural to man; and hence they endeavor to patch up some sort of a religion from the shreds of truth that are found in physical science, "_rari nantes in gurgite vasto_."
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His thoughts, struggling to force themselves out of that sphynx-like jargon which he spake and wrote, appear like the treasures of the shipwrecked Trojans, swimming '_rari in gurgite vasto_' -- Palmyra columns, reared in the midst of a desert of sentences.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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"Balerra" and "Sabina" wished to be buried in the closest proximity to a martyr, retro sanctos, a privilege which, as we learn from another inscription, "many desire but few receive" (quod multi cupiunt et rari accipiunt).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Only ten have their heads above the waters, "rari nantes in gurgite vasto."
History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912 Kemp Plummer 1912
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