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  • Other edifying anecdote: on Friday 12/11/2004, La Regione had a weird piece on Hacker protetti da San Espedito, beginning with “Anche gli hacker, i terribili pirati della Rete, hanno il loro patrono” – terrible pirates of the Web?

    La Suisse, Tiers-Monde du joueb? — Climb to the Stars 2004

  • Other edifying anecdote: on Friday 12/11/2004, La Regione had a weird piece on Hacker protetti da San Espedito, beginning with “Anche gli hacker, i terribili pirati della Rete, hanno il loro patrono” – terrible pirates of the Web?

    La Suisse, Tiers-Monde du joueb? — Climb to the Stars 2004

  • E conciacosa che havea inteso che li poeti dicevan le Gorgone esser femine terribili, però scrisse che le erano pelose ....

    Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850 Various

  • At tuba terribili sonitu taratantara dixit. incedunt arbusta per alta, securibus caedunt, percellunt magnas quercus, exciditur ilex, fraxinus frangitur atque abies consternitur alta, 15 pinus proceras peruortunt: omne sonabat arbustum fremitu siluai frondosai. vi

    Lesser Fragments of the Annals 1912

  • Latin quotation on my lips -- _At tuba terribili_, like as not.

    The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance Paul Elmer More 1900

  • Scit namque prudentia vestra, quam terribili anathematis censura feriuntur qui praesumptiose contra statuta universalium conciliorum venire audeant.

    An Introduction to the History of Western Europe James Harvey Robinson 1899

  • Julius appears to have appreciated his artist from the first; both were what the Italians call _uomini terribili_, men whose brains worked with furious energy, grand and formidable in their imaginations.

    Michael Angelo Buonarroti Charles Holroyd 1889

  • Both were _uomini terribili_, to use a phrase denoting vigour of character and energy of genius, made formidable by an abrupt, uncompromising spirit.

    The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti John Addington Symonds 1866

  • Both were _uomini terribili_, to use a phrase denoting vigour of character made formidable by an abrupt uncompromising temper.

    Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts John Addington Symonds 1866

  • '_Omne ignotum pro terribili_,' laughed Lucilla, still not to be made serious.

    Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

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