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• USA may not give a hoot for Palestinian lives but we have st ringent laws regarding cruelty to animals and animal abuse. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
• Stafford near Dunrobin Castle in Sutherlandshire, in which the usual ringent form of the corolla was replaced by the form called salver-shaped. —  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• The whorls of bloom issue from half-globular arrangements of buds and persistent calyces; each flower is an inch long; corolla ringent, or gaping; helmet, or upper division, linear; the seed organs are longer; the calyx tubular, having five minute teeth, being striped and grooved; the whole head, or whorl, is supported by a leafy bract, the leaflets being of a pale green colour, tinted with red. —  Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
• ‘junchērre, sāht ir für iuch varen zwēn’ rīter die sich niht bewaren 160 kunnen an rīterlīcher zunft? sie ringent mit der nōtnunft und sint an werdekeit verzaget: sie füerent roubes eine maget.’ der knappe wānde, swaȥ er sprach, 165 eȥ wære got, als ime verjach frou Herzeloyd’ diu künegīn, do s’im underschiet den liehten schīn. dō rief er lūte sunder spot —  A Middle High German Primer Third Edition

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