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I do adire the kid who wore the t-shirt, stand up for your rights as long as you have any left, which is damn few
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Another good one from the foie gras PM James Gordon Brown, adire man who despite being fat hates to be seen as fat by the media.
Gordon's Cool Britannia: Free money for being fat. FIDO The Dog 2009
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Maybe the good Dr could offer some weight loss advice to foie gras PM James Gordon Brown, adire man who despite being fat hates to be seen as fat by the media.
Dr David Walker - Calls for tax on chocolate. FIDO The Dog 2009
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Non cuivis contingit adire Corinthum, we may not be all gentlemen, all
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He described a sculpture of a headless hunter in adire (tie & dye) fabric (presumably by Yinka Shonibare) which, if you saw it outside of the context of this exhibition, would tell you nothing.
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Note 30: Annales Scheftlarienses maiores, ed.P. Jaffé, MGH SS 17.338: "Eodem anno quidam puer nomine Nicolaus surrexit, qui multitudinem puerorum et mulierum sibi aggregavit, cum quibus Ierusalem, crucem dominicam liberaturus, iussu angelico adire debere, mare sicut quondam populo Israelitico siccum iter prebere, asserebat." back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Anno igitur Domini 1331. disponente se praedicto fratre Odorico ad perficiendum iter suæ peregrinationis, prout mente conceperat, et etiam vt via et labor esset sibi magnis ad meritum, decreuit primò praesentiam adire Domini et patris omnium summi Pontificis
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Qualiter habuerunt in mandatis adire Baatu patrem Sartach.
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Qualiter habuerunt in mandatis adire Baatu patrem Sartach.
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Sed et famosius haberetur si mercatores mundi communitèr possint et auderent adire sicut Cathay, Nostratibus enim perrarus est illic accessus, tam præ longinquitate, quàm præ marinis periculis.
bellesme commented on the word adire
Adire is a type of fabric made in West Africa. It originated in Nigeria. There are different types of adire cloth, all of which involve a resist deign of white (or light blue) on an indigo background. A cassava starch resist is used for adire eleko.
January 2, 2010