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  • On September 9th 2009, ana wrote: paparazzi y periodista dejarlo ya que viva tranquilo su vida lo esteis matando dejarlo respirar sino a consecuencia que ese chaval se ruina su vida por culpa vuestra

    Robert Pattinson Shirtless Photos (“The Twilight Saga: New Moon”) 2009

  • En mi caso particular me vine a España porque estaba totalmente arruinado económicamente; de tener una bodega, un bar y una despensa, en pocos años terminamos en ruina, cada vez se vendia menos, la venta callejera que vendia mas barato sin pagar impuestos, el pago de alquiler, personal y las ventas cayeron a pique, y los servicios públicos cada vez mas caros …

    Global Voices in English » Global Recession: The world is talking. Are we listening? 2009

  • Gaudetque viam fecisse ruina, * (* He rejoices to have made his way by ruin - Lucan.)

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • The title of this book, which purports to be written in defense of Agrippa by a Cistercian monk, is Dialogus de vanitate scientiarum et ruina Christianae religionis/Dialogue on the Vanity of the Sciences and the Ruin of the Christian Religion; and in addition to defending Agrippa, it denounces the evils of the age and predicts apocalyptic disasters.

    Loss of Faith 2009

  • Poliaenus to take heed of such enticements, [5004] for it was the sweet sound and motion of his mistress's spangles and bracelets, the smell of her ointments, that captivated him first, Illa fuit mentis prima ruina meae.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Numquid minutissima sunt grana arenae? sed si arena amplius in navem mittatur, mergit illam; quam minutae guttae, pluviae? et tamen implent flumina, domus ejiciunt, timenda ergo ruina multiuidinis, si non magnitudinis.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Gaudetque viam fecisse ruina, * (* He rejoices to have made his way by ruin - Lucan.)

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • Gaudetque viam fecisse ruina, * (* He rejoices to have made his way by ruin - Lucan.)

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • Lixo, ruina, estrago" vai fora d'aqui, nao tens direito estar em minha casa! "

    Speaker for the Dead Card, Orson Scott 1986

  • Historia de ortu, progressu et ruina hæreseon hujus sæculi, ii.

    The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird

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