fandi

Fandi Ahmad's club ... any picture of fandi in Groningen kit???

FC Groningen 2007-08 shirt/kits Eridivisie league Azmie aka switch image 2007

When you have a favor to beg of a minister, or his first secretary, inform yourself adroitly of the state of his stomach, and always seize on “mollia fandi tempora.”

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Before leaving, he would have done anything at her request; but the mollia tempora fandi had now passed.

Two on a Tower 2006

I perceived this was none of the mollia tempora fandi; so desisted.

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

At this hour, however, all are not so civil, the seniors are often uncommonly cross and surly, and the mollia tempora fandi may not set in till after the first meal — I have seen something of the kind in England.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Mollissima tempora fandi -- the following is suggested:

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 572, October 20, 1832 Various

Rather I preach to you that having proudly inherited English with its copia fandi, you should keep your estate in order by constantly applying to it that jus et norma loquendi of which, if you seek to the great models, you will likewise find yourselves inheritors.

XI. English Literature in Our Universities (II) 1916

Huc doctae stipentur aues quis nobile fandi ius natura dedit: plangat Phoebeius ales, auditasque memor penitus dimittere uoces sturnus, et Aonio uersae certamine picae, quique refert iungens iterata uocabula perdix, 20 et quae Bistonio queritur soror orba cubili. ferte simul gemitus cognataque ducite flammis funera, et hoc cunctae miserandum addiscite carmen:

On the Death of a Favourite Parrot 1912

This time he had more regard to the “mollia tempora fandi, ” and succeeded very well.

Chapter XVIII. Easter Sunday-“Sail Ho!”-Whales-San Juan-Romance of Hide-Droghing-San Diego Again 1909

And even then he will not do it; and the painter will do it so that it may be seen with greater pleasure and move the spectator more, and likewise he will place before your eyes the brave image of Turnus, boastful and furious with the coward Drances, that it seems as if you fear him yourself and that he is saying: _Larga quidem semper, Drance, tibi copia fandi_.

Michael Angelo Buonarroti Charles Holroyd 1889