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Iz noo hi tech versum ub da old “bunny ears” on da tv…. “cat earz” maks da ICHC kom in clearler…….
Kitteh pop ups - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Quum de zele culparetur, purgandi se causa permisisse fertur ut ea qui vellet uteretur; quod ejus factum in sectam turpissimam versum est, qua placet usus indifferens foeminamm.
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Juvenal's Si natura negat, facit indignatio versum (“Though nature says no, indignation shapes my poetry”; I, 79) reveals precisely that quality of fury and outrage which drives most satire.
SATIRE ALVIN B. KERNAN 1968
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The first part of the description: "labias sensim primores emovemus," will apply to either sound, _vos_ or _wos_, although better, as will appear upon consulting the mirror, to _vos_ than to _wos_; but the second: "ac spiritum atque animam porro versum et ad eos quibuscum sermonicamur intendimus," will certainly apply far better to _vos_ than to _wos_.
The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord
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Vagenses ubi animum advertere ad se versum exercitum pergere, primo, uti erat res, Metellum esse rati, portas clausere, deinde ubi neque agros vastari et eos, qui primi aderant, Numidas equites vident, rursum
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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_Argentum tuum versum est in scoriam_; 'thy silver is turned into what? into testious _scoriam_, into dross,' Ah! seditious wretch! what had he to do with the mint?
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Interim Metellus quum accerrime rem gereret, clamorem hostilem a tergo accepit, dein converso equo animadvertit fugam ad se versum fieri, quae res indicabat populares esse.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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[447] _Vertit_, intransitively, 'has become changed;' the same as _vertit se_, or _versum est_.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Sed postea versum est quasi in cognomentum: appellatusque est Caecilius Statius. '
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Facit indignatio versum: here is the picture of "The Fine Old English Gentleman of the Present Time" -- in the middle of the Hungry 'Forties: --
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921
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