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De tal manera que pense en un catalizador que se pudiera añadir al agua y que reaccionara con el sol y aumentar la temperatura del agua de manera abrupta.
Sustainable Design Update » Blog Archive » Hydrogen Breakthrough 2008
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They now suggested the presence of six species: D. dussumieri from Aldabra, D. hololissa and D. arnoldi from the Seychelles, D. daudinii (probably) from the Seychelles, and D. abrupta and D. grandidieri from Madagascar.
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Quintilian II xi 6 'abrupta quaedam, ut forte _ad manum uenere_, iaculantur'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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THE rabbit (lepus minor, cauda abrupta, pupillis atris) are pretty common, and no ways differing from those of Pennsylvania and the northern states.
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Fiano's, he asked me 'ex abrupta' why I did not visit Cardinal Bernis.
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 28: Rome Giacomo Casanova 1761
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Fiano's, he asked me 'ex abrupta' why I did not visit Cardinal Bernis.
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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Glabrities abrupta foliorum in caule pubescente sin - gularis.
Prodromus stirpium in horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium Richard Anthony Salisbury 1796
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Ut ftctit, abrupta qua plurimus arcc Cithaeiixm Occumt coelo, fcra iibUa crinc Viretfti.
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Cum impios Tiberis haufiflet, ipfum etiam ilium cum equo et armis infignibus, fruftra conatum per abrupta ripae ulterioris eua - dere r idem Tiberis correptiim gurgite deuorauit; ne tarn deforme prodigium uel hanc obitus fui relinqueret famam, quod alicuius uiri fortis gla -
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Quis sublime genus formamque insignis Etruscae nesciat? haud quamquam proprio mihi cognita uisu, sed decus eximium famae par reddit imago, uultibus et similis natorum gratia monstrat. nec uulgare genus; fascis summamque curulem115 frater et Ausonios ensis mandataque fidus signa tulit, cum prima trucis amentia Dacos impulit et magno gens est damnata triumpho. sic quicquid patrio cessatum a sanguine, mater reddidit, obscurumque latus clarescere uidit120 conubio gauisa domus. nec pignora longe; quippe bis ad partus uenit Lucina manuque ipsa leui grauidos tetigit fecunda labores. felix a! si longa dies, si cernere uultus natorum uiridisque genas tibi iusta dedissent125 stamina! sed media cecidere abrupta iuuenta: gaudia florentisque manu scidit Atropos annos; qualia pallentis declinant lilia culmos pubentesque rosae primos moriuntur ad austros, aut ubi uerna nouis exspirat purpura pratis.
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