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  • On the third night, Marlene refused to play, but Sweetie said -- it was news to me -- that she loved playing Scrabble, and so with Peewee and Keola we resumed, passing the sock, selecting letters, making words that were not words -- "jin," "hink," "dred," "carni."

    Beard 2010

  • Roast beest be nachural fud fur carni… karne… meet-eeturs, nawt pinnygigs!

    Door-to-door saleskitteh practices - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • And to say the least, Mr. Maher bashed Sarah Palin quite hilariously like a gopher in the Whack It carni-game.

    Toronto 2008: Bill Maher's 'Religulous' (plus two terrific docs) | EW.com 2008

  • Nawt awl kittehs got teh memo dat kittehs be carni… karn… meet-eeters!

    ah did not sampl ur lasanya - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Modicus et temperatus cibus et carni et animae utilis est.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • As with all of O'Reilly's "divide and conquer" diatribes, designed for one thing and one thing only -- sales to suckers in the great American carnival, {whither habeus corpus now in the "carni-val", Mr. O'Reilly?}, -- his book is a distraction from the culture war that the United States engaged in when it illegally, unethically and criminally invaded Iraq in 2003.

    The Iraq War as Culture War 2006

  • Deluge God extended the permissible diet of men on the ground that morality demands freedom of choice: though it was better to be a vegetarian than a carni - vore, it was best to be free to choose one's diet.

    PRIMITIVISM GEORGE BOAS 1968

  • On the opposite side, four mam - mals crouched among yellow mists: beautiful creatures, the size of a bear, vividly tiger-striped, walking mostly on all fours but occasionly standing up; then you noticed the retractable claws between stubby fingers, and the carni - vore jaws on the massive heads.

    Trader To The Stars Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1964

  • _Chili con carni_ may be prepared by adding 1 pound chopped beef to the ingredients above and substituting chili powder for curry powder.

    School and Home Cooking Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer

  • "Una poena damni, in quantum scilicet retardantur a divina visione; alia sensus secundum quod ab igne punientur", and St. Bonaventure not only agrees with St. Thomas but adds (IV, dist. xx, p. 1, a. 1, q. ii) that this punishment by fire is more severe than any punishment which comes to men in this life; "Gravior est omni temporali poena. quam modo sustinet anima carni conjuncta".

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

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