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The word "tart" they traced back to the Latin tortus, meaning twisted.
Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910
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Torture as it is understood and defined is literally from the Latin tortus, or to twist.
George Bush Creates A Paradoxical Standard On Torture « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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Torture as it is understood and defined is literally from the Latin tortus, or to twist.
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May 16, 2008 at 4:19 am i can haz yin tortus-shel?
catserole - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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"Yer said, Pop, as it was a tortus," murmured the bashful Hop, who had sheltered himself behind Pop.
The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902
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But me and Hop's got a tortus as is a wunner, guv'nor.
The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902
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_ I. 455; II. 290, 253; where the epithets _tortus, pronus_, applied to Capricorn, which was Tiberius's star, hint at his character and his disgrace.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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Panza, than "_tortus y pan pintado_" (couleur de rose).
The Tiger Hunter Mayne Reid 1850
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* Sdenlh, qiue tins tdnquam tela | ertncenda tradttur, oicm nethodo (fi fieri poteft) animo 'id tortus eft infinuan*
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But…yu kan cee TJ’s byootemus tortus-shellness en hims pics.
Journey to the center of the Earth - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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