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[Middle English, from Old French, from ord, filthy, from Latin horridus, frightful, from horrre, to shudder.] on April 13, 2010 at 7: 59 pm officer and a lady
Crime And Immigration In Britain SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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The Romans considered the Alps inhospitable, arduous, horrid -- ocris, arduus, horridus.
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland Richard Bangs 2011
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MCZ 1102, the holotype skull of Triceratops "eurycepahlus" Shlaikjer 1935 (now considered conspecific with T. horridus).
Howard Hughes Wanders Out Among the Artifacts nineweaving 2010
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The Romans considered the Alps inhospitable, arduous, horrid -- ocris, arduus, horridus.
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland Richard Bangs 2011
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From what i could discern, this one in question was a timber rattler venomous and awesome in its own right (scientific name "Crotalus horridus", which should tell you something).
What's more fearsome in the wilds, a man eating shark, or a menacing rattle snake? 2009
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The Romans considered the Alps inhospitable, arduous, horrid -- ocris, arduus, horridus.
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland Richard Bangs 2011
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I received an e-mail from Heritage Auction Galleries yesterday alerting me to its upcoming auction on January 18 of a Triceratops horridus skull, and I've been lusting after the thing ever since.
Make Scott's Emulsion Your New Year's Resolution scottedelman 2009
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It's not like every Mesozoic dinosaur species needs its own genus anyway, and hatcheri is similar enough to horridus and prorsus to make Triceratops hatcheri palatable, right?
Insufficiency!?! ReBecca Foster 2009
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All five Australian reptile families are represented and species include monitor lizard Varanus giganteus, thorny devil lizard Moloch horridus, western brown snake Pseudonaja nuchalis, Ramsay's python Aspidites ramsayi and numerous others.
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Coastal western hemlock and sitka spruce occur along the western and southern edges of the park, mixed with black cottonwood Populus sp. and sitka alder along streams and beach fringes, and an understorey of moss, blueberry Vaccinium sp. devil's-club Oplopanax horridus, skunk cabbage and ferns.
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