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While the NCR will supply a bunch of busy work quests to help out the camp, the "Decanus" gives a straightforward quest: assassinate the three officers of the NCR camp up north.
1UP RSS feed 2010
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Cyngis can ordinauit, vt decem hominibus pr鎝oneretur vnus: et ille secundum nos appellatur Decanus.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Decanus, the dean (called Cadenus by transposition of the letters), took pleasure in directing and interesting till, from being proud of his praise, she grew fond of his person.
The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees Mary Caroline Crawford
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Marpurgensi Antecessor primarius, et nunc Decanus.
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The word Dean belongs to the ancient Roman law, _Decanus_, lit. one who has authority over ten, as a centurion was one who had authority over a hundred.
Old St. Paul's Cathedral William Benham 1870
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Decanus et Capitulum maximopere etiam atque etiam petierunt, ut hæredes Ducis, monumentum in memoriam parentis erigendum curarent.
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She was a young woman fond of literature, whom Decanus, the dean, called
Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746
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She was a young woman fond of literature, whom Decanus, the dean, called Cadenus by transposition of the letters, took pleasure in directing and instructing; till, from being proud of his praise, she grew fond of his person.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746
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Quaeso, Reverende Vir, digneris hanc epistolam inclusam cum versiculis perlegere, quam cum fastidio abjecit et respuebat Decanus ille (inquam) lepidissimus et Musarum et Apollinis comes.
The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 Jonathan Swift 1706
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Nos etenim Wedehindus Epifcopus Eghardus Pr6. pofitus Fredericus Decanus totumque Capitulum 'preta£le IWindenfis Ecclefie antedi6i devotioni hu - jusmodi & falubri ordinationi favorabiliter annuen - tes premiflfaque omuia & fingula rata grata & fir*
Subsidia diplomatica ad selecta juris Ecclesiastici Germaniae: et historiarum capita elucidanda ... 1777
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