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  • It also cited work done by a website called contagio dump.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • So we had ESL at the bilingual school to help kids in their English classes and we also have ESL at the international school. contagio

    What Are The Differences Between Esl And Bilingual Teaching? « Esl Literacy « Literacy Help « Literacy News 2009

  • Confieso que no sé si las medidas en cuestión serán efectivas o no para evitar un contagio masivo, pero debo reconocer que lo que al principio fue una sorpresa para mí, luego se transformó en una agradable sensación de satisfacción con la tarea desplegada por las autoridades sanitarias en Paraguay.

    Global Voices in English » Paraguay: Governmental Response to Arrival of H1N1 Virus 2009

  • Haec primo paulatim crescere, interdum vindicari; post, ubi contagio quasi pestilentia invasit, civitas immutata, imperium ex justissimo atque optimo crudele intolerandumque factum.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • It was held in great veneration by the Romans, who made pilgrimages to it in times of public calamities, such as the famous plague (_contagio-moria) _ of Alexander

    Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888

  • : “Verum etiam quaedam contagio scelens, si defendas eum, quem obstrictum esse patriae parricidio suspicere.”

    The Life of Cicero Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1881

  • Domine, Pater et Dux rationis nostræ, ut nostræ Nobilitatis recordemur, quâ tu nos ornasti: et ut tu nobis presto sis, ut iis qui per sese moventur; ut et a Corporis contagio, Brutorumque affectuum repurgemur, eosque superemus, atque regamus; et, sicut decet, pro instruments iis utamur.

    Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens John Ruskin 1859

  • : "Verum etiam quaedam contagio scelens, si defendas eum, quem obstrictum esse patriae parricidio suspicere."

    Life of Cicero Volume One Anthony Trollope 1848

  • Christians in Bithynia and Pontus, which was so considerable as to induce the governor of these provinces to speak of them in the following terms: "Multi, omnis aetatis, utriusque sexus etiam; -- neque enim civitates tantum, sed vicos etiam et agros, superstitionis istius contagio pervagata est."

    Evidence of Christianity William Paley 1774

  • But while the contagio samples don't immediately stand out, they do share a common thread:

    CSO 2010

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