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Examples
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“Proh flagitium! what have we here, villain?” and clutching at his victim, he raised the cane.
Westward Ho! 2007
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I know which is proper; but sometimes I speak according to the licence of the present fashion, so far as to say _Proh Deûm_, or _Proh
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"Proh flagitium! what have we here, villain?" and clutching at his victim, he raised the cane.
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847
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We therefore made a blazing fire, sat ourselves around it, and heard the little folks say the Ten Commandments, when there was a rustling and crackling behind us, and my daughter jumped up and ran into the cavern, crying, "_Proh dolor hostis_!"
Maria Schweidler die Bernsteinhexe. English Wilhelm Meinhold 1824
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_Proh pudor_! we were to have the honor of counting among the "little boys" one whose coat was adorned with the red ribbon displayed by the "Academicians" of Vendome.
Louis Lambert Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Mr. Bentham is half-brother to the late Mr. Speaker Abbott [A] -- _Proh pudor_!
The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits William Hazlitt 1804
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[114] Τίς νύ μοι ἡμέρη ἥδε; -- So Cicero, who seems to translate it -- Proh dii immortales!
The Odyssey of Homer 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1765
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Proh Deûm atque hominum fidem! quare illi, cui ne libella nummi est, dentes, stomachum, viscera concessit natura? mehercule, nostro ludibrium debens corpori, frustra laboravit a patre voluntario exilio, qui macrum ligone macriorem reddit agellum.
The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 Jonathan Swift 1706
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Proh-LA is doing the same thing, telling these hillside property owners lies that the city will not allow them to build their house and their property rights will be taken away. said:
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Proh-LA is doing the same thing, telling these hillside property owners lies that the city will not allow them to build their house and their property rights will be taken away. said:
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