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  • Ai baek `bowt 28 pownds uv sordid caek fur sellin at teh open dai at a tranport myuzeeum in Lincoln TTI 2 halp prizerb awld bussis, carz an trux.

    I lub yu! I missed yu! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Me, I juz git runned ovar by sament trux kuz datz whut in mah town: Sod and sament.

    I’S OUT OF LITTER - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007

  • Speaking of trux (and a potential stopover in Chapel Hill), I was in the Triangle last weekend and had one Sunday to make my rounds using a cousin's borrowed longbed Ford Diesel.

    secret life of Interstate 10 2004

  • Leucothoe, frenatque rosis delphina Palaemon; alternas uiolis Nereus interserit algas; canitiem Glaucus ligat inmortalibus herbis. nec non et uariis uectae Nereides ibant audito rumore feris (hanc pisce soluto165 subleuat Oceani monstrum Tartesia tigris; hanc timor Aegaei rupturus fronte carinas trux aries; haec caeruleae suspensa leaenae innatat; haec uiridem trahitur complexa iuuencum), certatimque nouis onerant conubia donis.

    The Marriage of Honorius and Maria Claudian 1912

  • Ovid, in his _Ars Amandi_ (Book III), says it is scarcely necessary to remind a lady that she must not keep a goat in her armpits: "_ne trux caper iret in alas_."

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899

  • Litorio, in Rhodanum proprios producere fines, Thendoridae fixum; nec erat pugnare necesse, Sed migrare Getis; rabidam trux asperat iram Victor; quod sensit Scythicum sub moenibus hostem Imputat, et nihil est gravius, si forsitan unquam Vincere contingat, trepido.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Tacitus himself tells us that Agrippina was a most exacting mother; that is, a mother of the older Roman type ā€ in his own words, trux et minax.

    The Women of the Caesars Ferrero, Guglielmo, 1871-1942 1911

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