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  • Tuo metu skaičiau BBB ir buvau sutelkęs visą dÄmesį į apple ekraną, nes ten rodÄÂgerą medžiagą

    Adam’s Apple « The Museum Of Modern Fiction 2008

  • When the tyrant Kreon exiled Medea from Corinth, he said, “libera cives metu

    Fear Makes The World Go Round 2006

  • Parum vero distat sapientia virorum a puerili, multo minus senum et mulierum, cum metu et superstitione et aliena stultitia et improbitate simplices agitantur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Note 70: Wolter, no. 10, p. 48: "Igitur inventus a parentibus, quo isset vel ubi fuisset minando interrogantibus, infantili metu perterritus minisque coactus, cuncta per ordinem puerili sono pandit parentibus." back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • But he turned himself forthwith into his own shape, began to embrace and offer violence unto her, sed illa matris metu abnuebat, but she by no means would yield, donec pollicitus connubium obtinuit, till he vowed and swore to marry her, and then she gave consent.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Etymology: Middle English mede, from Old English medu; akin to Old High German metu mead, Greek methy wine

    My controversial etiquette tip. Ann Althouse 2005

  • Mons Sinay appellatur ibi desertum Syn: quasi in radice montis istius habetur Coenobium Monachorum pergrande, cuius clausura in circuitu est firmata muris altis, et portis ferreis, pro metu bestiarum deserti.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Mons Sinay appellatur ibi desertum Syn: quasi in radice montis istius habetur Coenobium Monachorum pergrande, cuius clausura in circuitu est firmata muris altis, et portis ferreis, pro metu bestiarum deserti.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Eo cum delectis equitibus noctu pergit et jam egredientibus Romanis in porta pugnam facit; simul magna voce Siccenses hortatur, uti cohortes ab tergo circumveniant; fortunam illis praeclari facinoris casum dare; si id fecerint, postea sese in regno, illos in libertate sine metu aetatem acturos.

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

  • Romae pollere audiverat, contra inceptum suum venisse, primo commotus, metu atque libidine diversus agitabatur.

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

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