Definitions
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- adjective being one more than eighteen
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of eighteen and one
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I), less grave but yet serious sins, which he enumerates in "De Pud.", xix: "Sins of daily committal, to which we are all subject; to whom indeed does it not occur to be angry without cause and after the sun has set, or to give a blow, or easily to curse, or to swear rashly, or break a contract, or lie through shame or necessity?
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Comp. ", xix," O quam præclare providentia ut illo die quo natus est Sol ... nasceretur Christus. "
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Meaning “bench” or “long seat,” this native term was entirely devoid of any association with Roman coins or Italian mounds of real or theoretical silver and gold.xix Quite unlike the “workbench” that Mediterranean bankers adapted from Germanic languages to describe work surfaces for their money-changing operations, the Old English benc had potent Germanic associations.
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Speakers of Cherokee say no-qui-si.xix And in West Greenlandic, an Eskimo-Aleut tongue, the word is ulluriaq.
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Meaning “bench” or “long seat,” this native term was entirely devoid of any association with Roman coins or Italian mounds of real or theoretical silver and gold.xix Quite unlike the “workbench” that Mediterranean bankers adapted from Germanic languages to describe work surfaces for their money-changing operations, the Old English benc had potent Germanic associations.
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Speakers of Cherokee say no-qui-si.xix And in West Greenlandic, an Eskimo-Aleut tongue, the word is ulluriaq.
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But what Rosenbaum seems to have taken away most from his encounter with The Original of Laura is that on page xix of the book's front matter Dmitri Nabokov thanks ...
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But what Rosenbaum seems to have taken away most from his encounter with The Original of Laura is that on page xix of the book's front matter Dmitri Nabokov thanks ...
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But what Rosenbaum seems to have taken away most from his encounter with The Original of Laura is that on page xix of the book's front matter Dmitri Nabokov thanks ...
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In addition to weight reduction, GM has been studied for its effects on constipation, serum cholesterol, (xvii) blood glucose, (xviii) blood pressure, (xix) and insulin resistance syndrome. (xx)
Mark Hyman, MD: The Super Fiber That Controls Your Appetite and Blood Sugar
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