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  • Someone, somehow, picked up that the referant of the illusion was that Wild Bill Hickcock had done some marshalling and gunslinging in that self same town.

    Joe Klein: I Was "Wrong" To Call McCain An Honorable Man 2009

  • Assiduae eaeque acidae ructationes quae cibum virulentum culentumque nidorem, et si nil tale ingestum sit, referant ob cruditatem.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Byblidos indictum nulli scelus; impia Myrrhae conubia et saeuo uiolatum crimine patrem nouimus, utque Arabum fugiens cum carperet arua iuit in arboreas frondis animamque uirentem. sunt qui squamosi referant fera sibila Cadmi30 stellatumque oculis custodem uirginis Ius

    Exordium to a Poem on Hunting 1912

  • Still - as a general rule, broadcasting: "I am an amazing 0.7936254" - without any referant for comparison, is not that helpful.

    OpenOffice.org Planet 2009

  • Infert aatem yiSatanas poenam non fuis, funt enim ficot y4pfatra Deum tibi viftoriam fingas, ae mi - ktibas, ut alia pro aliis referant, mei

    Analysis operum S.S. patrum et scriptorum ecclesiasticorum 1790

  • Fabutofa autem veris fecemere, valde dilBicile eft, difccepandbus dofiorum judiciis ', cum qvod alii ad hiftorianiyidem alii td fabohs referant, neatri fine radohe.

    Torfaeana: sive, Thormodi Torfaei Notae posteriores in Seriem regum Daniae, epistolae Latinae ... Þormóður Torfason 1777

  • Et neque utrum fuperavit eorum, nec fuperar tum 'ft. Fit quoque, ut interdum fimiles exfiftere Avorum Poifint, & referant Proavorum fxpe figuras,

    T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Creech, Thomas, 1659-1700. ed 1770

  • Sedalicer, ficeor» dariffimi Incerpretet; cum non ncerque folum ri mi 'iafidihms •krmatmr ad jadiccm Erattneiim » % tti fibi rit, referant, rerum Anglicut infupcf po&*to frotmlit t pronomen«4V vel«l4V» luppleveric; ad cret nimirumValeritBa - micat, immoquafijam omnet tncra d - vicacem damnacu, refpideos, ducen - dafque duncaxac, quod ropereflec, ad fupplicii locum excra muros.

    Lucii Caecilii Firmiani Lactantii De mortibus persecutorum, cum notis Stephani Baluzii ... Lactantius, Paul Bauldri, Etienne Baluze , Nicolas Thoynard , Johan Columbus , Thomas Spark , Joannes Georgius Graevius, Gisbertus Cuperus, Elias Boherellus, Thomas Gale 1692

  • Praeterea, ad rectum sacramentorum usum illud quoque est necessarium, ut intelligatur quem ad finem tam minister, quam qui sacramenta accipit, ea referant: nam qui sacramentum accipit, si secus atqui oportet de fine ejus senserit, ibi sacramenti quoque usus et fructus cessat; quod et in sacrificiorum rejectione est evidens: item si doctor falsam doctrinam palam obtrudat, quamquam sacramenta sint a Deo instituta, tamen quia impii alio quam quo Deus voluit ea referant, ei sunt ingrata et detestabilia.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • | tntarum quafi 'uefiiumfiabntiem referant, hirfuta, fubalbida t

    Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medicinali materia libri sex Dioscórides , Dioscorides Pedanius , Joannes Ruellius 1550

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