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  • By copsody, Spain will yield, for they are but a race of loobies.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • By copsody, Spain will yield, for they are but a race of loobies.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Thus while I tell the truth about loobies, my reader's imagination need not be entirely excluded from an occupation with lords; and the petty sums which any bankrupt of high standing would be sorry to retire upon, may be lifted to the level of high commercial transactions by the inexpensive addition of proportional ciphers.

    Middlemarch 1871

  • Thus while I tell the truth about loobies, my reader's imagination need not be entirely excluded from an occupation with lords; and the petty sums which any bankrupt of high standing would be sorry to retire upon, may be lifted to the level of high commercial transactions by the inexpensive addition of proportional ciphers.

    Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900) 1871

  • Thus while I tell the truth about loobies, my reader's imagination need not be entirely excluded from an occupation with lords; and the petty sums which any bankrupt of high standing would be sorry to retire upon, may be lifted to the level of high commercial transactions by the inexpensive addition of proportional ciphers.

    Middlemarch George Eliot 1849

  • The next; by what I have writ, the world thinks I am not a fool, which was just what I wished them to think, having always lived in terror of that oracular saying Ermu naidex luchoi, which Mr. Bentley translated with so much more parts than the vain and malicious hero could have done that set him the task, -- I mean his father, the sons of heroes are loobies.

    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757

  • By copsody, Spain will yield, for they are but a race of loobies.

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

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