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É o que são, no fundo, criaturas míticas da literatura e do cinema como Drácula, os lobisomens ou toda a caterva de seres animalescos e monstruosos que nos aterrorizam tão deliciosamente.
Freaks Artur 2006
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Tom Jenkins swears by Bala and abuses Llangollen, and calls its people drunkards, just as a Spaniard exalts his own village and vituperates the next and its inhabitants, whom, though he will not call them drunkards, unless indeed he happens to be a Gallegan, he will not hesitate to term “una caterva de pillos y embusteros.”
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He ought to have had a retinue of enthusiastic pupils at his heels, (magna comitante caterva,) carrying his chain and his compass, and his barometer, and his tent and traveling chest.
Fifty Years Since: An Address Before the Alumni Association of the University of North Carolina 1860
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Novi nonnullos qui abs te excipi deberent ab reliquorum caterva viri docti, egregii, omnique laude et commendatione dignissimi.
Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852
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Interea titulis redimiti sanguine et armis Illustresque viri Romana a stirpe trahentes Nomen in emeritos tantae virtutis honores Insulerant sese medios festumque colebant Aurata fulgente toga, sociante caterva.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Debeat bumanfs lioftra caterva nihil. i»Tandere per curas, & per jejonia caroeni Utile 1 perque croces, excubiasqoe Sacras. itPorior hicetenilii efficitor, qoi crimine poros Hsecqoe adimit vitii nonnihii arte malost
Analysis operum S.S. patrum et scriptorum ecclesiasticorum 1790
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Sed regnum, conftans & amore & pace y manebat Laus hominis, reliqua promte parente caterva.
Essai sur l'homme, poëme philosophique, en cinq langues, savoir: anglois, latin, italien ... 1772
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Quaerintus et libros, Do6lorum grata caterva eft Vos mihi Pierides et in otia digna juveds,
Gaudia poetica, Lat., Angl. et Gall. lingua composita [by F. Calvert.]. 1770
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