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  • His altero ego is Clark kent, all other heroes hide what they are.

    Mark Millar's Superman Pitch Revealed as Godfather-Like Epic « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • Latrunculorum ludus inventus est a duce, ut cum miles intolerabili fame laboraret, altero die edens altero ludens, famis oblivisceretur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Burgravius, makes mention of a friend of his that is about an instrument, quo videbit quae in altero horizonte sint.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Qualis est animi tinea, quae tabes pectoris zelare in altero vel aliorum felicitatem suam facere miseriam, et velut quosdam pectori suo admovere carnifices, cogitationibus et sensibus suis adhibere tortores, qui se intestinis cruciatibus lacerent.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Piso, that when he answered him he fetched one of his brows up to his forehead, and bent the other down to his chin; Respondes, altero ad frontem sublato, altero ad mentum depresso supercilio, crudelitatem tibi non placere.

    The Essays 2007

  • Husbands and wives did this "ut ostendant sese mutuo debere corrigere, ne illo tempore alter ab altero thori debitum exigat" (Beleth, I, c. cxx; Durandus, I, c. vi, 86).

    04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004 John 2004

  • Pro hac arena venitur per aquas, et per terras, et exportatur manibus et vehiculis propè et procul, et quantumcúnque de die exhauritur, repleta manè altero reperitur: Et est in fossa ventus grandis et iugis, qui mirabiliter arenam commouere videtur.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Si hic vir vxoratus moritur, sepelitur et vxor vna cum eo, quatenus, sicut ibi credunt, habeant eam statim sociam in seculo altero.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Thibiorum genus, multosque alios eiusdem naturæ: quorum notas tradit in altero oculo geminam pupillam, in altero equi effigiem.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Qui celat delictum, quaerit amicitiam; sed qui altero sermone repetit, separat faederatos.

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

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