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When America starrs to realize the Politicans are nothing but crooked, thieves, then perhaps we can start voting them out of office. move the White House to the middle of the country, and start alllllll over with a new breed of people who have some common sense.
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Tehn ai weel jest batt, batt, sum ov mai starrs undur it!
Yes. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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It is well known that, before the banishment of the Jews under Edward I, their contracts and obligations were denominated in our ancient records starra or starrs, from a corruption of the Hebrew word, shetàr, a covenant.
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For in process of time, when the meaning of the Jewish starrs was forgotten, the word star-chamber was naturally rendered in law-french, la chaumbre des esteilles, and in law-latin, camera stellata; which continued to be the style in latin till the dissolution of thatcourt.
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But sea-captings should not be eternly spowting and invoking gods, hevns, starrs, angels, and other silestial influences.
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And who so darrs, not caring how he darrs, Sells vertues name, to purchase foolish starrs.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Page 336, Volume 4 refusing to be satisfied with “earth and this diurnal scene,” spreads its wings and takes off on a cosmic voyage through streams of light, past the planets and the “devious comets” until she “looks back on all the starrs whose blended light, as with a milky zone invests the orient.”
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968
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This pleased his captors, and they further showed their good-will by untying him and letting him lie down comfortably {193} between two of them, covered with a red coverlet through which he "might have counted the starrs."
French Pathfinders in North America William Henry Johnson
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Or starrs thatt shoote beneathe theyr feeble lyghtt,
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 330, September 6, 1828 Various
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(Gen 1) 57 And by his worde the starrs were made, & he noweth the number of the starres.
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