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Ha I got there dvds and sweatshirt. gotta stay repen..
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Mare eie stondeð men of monne þanne hom do of c {ri} ste. þe wel ne doð þe hwile þe ho muȝen. wel oft hit schal rowen {;} þenne ȝe mawen sculen ⁊ repen þ̵ ho er sowen.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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[Old English riopan; related to Norwegian ripa to scratch, Middle Low German repen to card, ripple (flax)]
Word of the Day 2009
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* — Such is the repen - tance which heathen moralists taught; and if it differs from yours, the difference lies in its being 1 more agreeable to scripture and to the general sense of mankind.
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Jslo exeunc; forisque ance porcas quafi prxfto - ancur, tempus confabulationibus fallentes per - denCesque, donec fuo idiomace audico, fe revo - cari fencianc; quod viciflim Saxones repen? dunc, parcemalceram, quaeSclavico fermoneha - becur, jparicer fugiences.
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Perhaps this is the only act of cruelty with which he can be re - proached; and, for the commiflion of which, he has himfelf teftiried his repen - tance.
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MBgnflifolUu 5* A. flofcolk radiandbos ferrilibas, caulibas repen -
Caroli a Linné ... Systema vegetabilivm secvndvm classes, ordines, genera, species cvm characteribvs et differentiis. Editio decima quarta praecedente longe avctior et correctior cvrante Io. Andrea Mvrray .. Murray, Johann Andreas, 1740-1791 1784
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Impetuttt vccat repen -. tinum animi ex honesto motum.
C. Cornelii Taciti Opera Gabriel Brotier 1782
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Idcirco ego grati in Deum & Regcm animi teftimoni - um, conterranels commodum, meque vcrmem non hominem in terris repen - tjm, bene pro facultatula ecclefiiB Chrifti voluifle, indicium aliquod relinquere con - cupivi.
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And by this might they learne, that though God fpcake angerly vnto vs, yet he ncuer fpea - keth fo, but for our profit, and will furely pardon our iniquiti«, if wc from the hart repen t vs of the fame,
Lectures or daily sermons, of that Reuerend Diuine, D. Iohn Caluine... upon the Prophet Jonas .. 1578
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