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  • "ingrato," were the terms used in speaking of him.

    The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Mayne Reid 1850

  • É um programa de debates entre Inês Pedrosa, Maria João Seixas e Vicente Jorge Silva, moderado por Luís Caetado, que foi relegado para o ingrato horário das manhãs de domingo.

    Um Certo Olhar... Artur 2008

  • Mr. Daniels, who had only a few professional gigs before that one, nailed the brutally fast coloratura of Tamerlano's Act III rage aria, "A dispetto d'un volto ingrato," with such ferocious agility and volume that listeners were stunned.

    Daniels and Domingo 2008

  • Licet tota Galenistarum schola, mineralia non sine impio et ingrato fastu a sua practica detestentur; tamen in gravioribus morbis omni vegetabilium derelicto subsidio, ad mineralia confugiunt, licet ea temere, ignaviter, et inutiliter usurpent.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Sutton Coldfield in Warwickshire (where I was once a grammar scholar), may be a sufficient witness, which stands, as Camden notes, loco ingrato et sterili, but in an excellent air, and full of all manner of pleasures.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Praeterea juventus, quae in agris manuum mercede inopiam toleraverat, privatis atque publicis largitionibus excita [193] urbanum otium ingrato labori praetulerat; eos atque alios omnes malum publicum alebat.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • The Embassadour for too much animositie and more then needed in the case, or perchance by ignorance of the proprietie of the Spanish tongue, told the Emperour among other words, that he was _Hombre el mas ingrato enel mondo_, the ingratest person in the world to vse his maister so.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • Scis enim ex cujus officina _Tigris_ prodiit, liber certe tigride parente, id est homine barbaro, impuro, impio, ingrato, malevolo, maledico dignissimus.

    The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird

  • And find her he did, it seems, according to that fellow Chrysalus of mine. condigne is quam techinam de auro advorsum meum fecit patrem, ut mi amanti copia esset [13] nam pol quidem meo animo ingrato homine nihil inpensiust, malefactorem amitti satius quam relinqui beneficum; nimio inpendiosum praestat te quam ingratum dicier; illum laudabunt boni, hunc etiam ipsi culpabunt mali.

    Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

  • En la Europa de los '70, aún permanecía aquel recuerdo ingrato.

    WN.com - Articles related to Cruyff hands in Barcelona club badge 2010

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