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  • Mighty Aph – If one is not allowed to hold a political opinion that a criminal also holds, then the entire Republican platform is gone.

    Think Progress » Bush Claimed Iraqis Oppose Timetable the Day After Iraq’s VP Personally Asked Him for One 2006

  • He disdains to associate utility, like Bacon (Nov.Org. I.Aph. 124), the High

    The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi 2003

  • * Aph 'henos egennethesan, kai tauta nenekromenou: [4794] 1

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • One of the daughters of Jupiter, called Veʹnus, or Aph-ro-diʹte, was the goddess of beauty and love.

    The Story of Troy Michael Clarke 1880

  • Aph ro dī 'te -- Venus, the goddess of love and beauty.

    Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1879

  • He disdains to associate utility, like Bacon (Nov.Org. I.Aph. 124), the

    The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • On alighting from the air-boat, a child accosted Aph-Lin in the hall with a request that he would be present at the funeral obsequies of a relation who had recently departed from that nether world.

    The Coming Race Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • In my excursions in the town I was never allowed to go alone; Aph-Lin or his daughter was my habitual companion.

    The Coming Race Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • One of the sons, who was now the head of the family, and who seemed in vigorous middle life, though he was considerably more than seventy, stepped forward with a cheerful face and told Aph-Lin "that the day before he died his father had seen in a dream his departed Gy, and was eager to be reunited to her, and restored to youth beneath the nearer smile of the All-Good."

    The Coming Race Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • The house differed in appearance from the massive and sombre building which Aph-Lin inhabited in the city, and which seemed akin to the rocks out of which the city itself had been hewn into shape.

    The Coming Race Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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