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  • Wildly defective genitives *mlitós → Hit milittas, Lat mellis, Gk μέλιτος, Ir melo, Arm melu.

    Missing honey 2010

  • Wildly defective genitives *mlitós → Hit milittas, Lat mellis, Gk μέλιτος, Ir melo, Arm melu.

    Archive 2010-03-01 2010

  • As the porter in Macbeth said of alcohol, it "provokes the desire but takes away the performance." honey (miel de abaja) Mel mellis: The basis for claiming honey to be an aphrodisiac probably has root in the misplaced belief in the libidinous effects of alcohol, since the Mayans made their ritual alcoholic beverage, balché, from honey.

    Food For Valentine's Day: Mexican Native Aphrodisiacs 2006

  • As the porter in Macbeth said of alcohol, it "provokes the desire but takes away the performance." honey (miel de abaja) Mel mellis: The basis for claiming honey to be an aphrodisiac probably has root in the misplaced belief in the libidinous effects of alcohol, since the Mayans made their ritual alcoholic beverage, balché, from honey.

    Food For Valentine's Day: Mexican Native Aphrodisiacs 2006

  • The island has nationally important populations of fish honey blue-eye Pseudomugil mellis (EN) and Oxleyan pygmy perch Nannoperca oxleyana (EN).

    Fraser Island, Australia 2008

  • Nihil homini tam prospere datum divinitus, quin ei admixtum sit aliquid difficultatis, in amplissima quaque laetitia subest quaedam querimonia, conjugatione quadam mellis et fellis.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • David scinto and louis mellis are no ordanary film writters sexy beast was a excellent gangster film and with ray winstone on the cast again this will be another great gangster film!

    Filmstalker: 44 Inch Chest stars Winstone, Hurt and Roth 2007

  • Non improbatur butyrum et oleum, si tamen plus quam par sit, non profundatur: sacchari et mellis usus, utiliter ad ciborum condimenta comprobatur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Nihil quicquid homini tam prosperum divinitus datum, quin ei admixtum sit aliquid difficultatis ut etiam amplissima quaqua laetitia, subsit quaepiam vel parva querimonia conjugatione quadam mellis, et fellis.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Nam et Saraceni et Pagani, et omnes sectæ præter Iudæos et baptizatos Christianos sentiunt bonorum Paradisum fore terrestrem illum de quo fuit expulsus Adam propter inobedientiam protoplaustus: qui (vt putant) fluit, vel tunct fluet pluribus riuis lactis et mellis, et vbi in domibus et mansionibus nobiliter iuxta meritum vniuscuiusque ædificatur auro, et argento et gemmis, perfruentur omnibus corporalibus delicijs, in oblectatione animæ æternaliter sine fine.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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