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  • Clames licet et mare coelo — — — Confundas, surdo narras, [416] demonstrate as Ulysses did to [417] Elpenor and Gryllus, and the rest of his companions those swinish men, he is irrefragable in his humour, he will be a hog still; bray him in a mortar, he will be the same.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Beethoven era músico e surdo, mas não desde a nascença.

    Incrível!!! Artur 2005

  • * [3150] Mens habet attonitos, et surdo verbere cædit!

    Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

  • * [6774] Mens habet attonitos, et surdo verbere cædit!

    Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

  • No, my dear honest bore, _surdo fabulam narras_, they are no more to me than a rat in the arras.

    The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855

  • MacGillivray, of the "Rattlesnake," saw near Cape York a woman with these scars: she was a surdo-mute, and had probably been spayed to prevent increase.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • These are two items, apparently instinctive and universal, of man's gesture-language which has been so highly cultivated by sundry North American tribes and by the surdo-mute establishments of Europe.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Their instrumentation is diverse in origin and includes balafon, steelpans, djembe, dun duns, surdo, tamborim, congas and more, combined with drums, bass and electric guitar.

    unknown title 2008

  • He also recovered himself again, and said in the pettish way which usually indicated his displeasure — “Yes, my lord, it was we that said it — non surdo canis — we are not deaf — we pray you not to raise your voice in speech with us — there is the bonny memorial — read, and judge for yourself.”

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

  • These are two items, apparently instinctive and universal, of man’s gesture-language which has been so highly cultivated by sundry North American tribes and by the surdo-mute establishments of Europe.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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  • Spanish for southpaw.

    February 17, 2010