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He has other issues he need to take care of than worrying about media speculation. prince festus okojie
Obama sends condolences to Jackson's family, says Gibbs 2009
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The Code of Canon Law consistently translates Lat. dies festus as “Feast Day” and Lat. dies festus de praecepto as “Holy Day of Obligation.”
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The Code of Canon Law consistently translates Lat. dies festus as “Feast Day” and Lat. dies festus de praecepto as “Holy Day of Obligation.”
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Ole Uncle festus is going to give a speech at the Democratic convention.
"Because of a recent string of hurtful and absurd lies in a tabloid publication...." Ann Althouse 2008
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The Persian kings are not so jovial as he is, O [5315] festus dies hominis, O happy day; so Chaerea exclaims when he came from Pamphila his sweetheart well pleased,
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Et tunc cum sit dies festus siue kalendæ ipsi extrahunt prædictas imagines et ponunt eas ordinate per circuitum in domo sua.
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Communis quoque populus, dum festus diebus intendere deberent deuotioni in templo, currit in hortis, in spectaculis, in tabernis vsque ad crapulam, et ebrietatem, et pinguia manducans et bibens, ac in bestiarum morem, luxuriam prauam exercens.
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Et tunc cum sit dies festus siue kalend� ipsi extrahunt pr鎑ictas imagines et ponunt eas ordinate per circuitum in domo sua.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Communis quoque populus, dum festus diebus intendere deberent deuotioni in templo, currit in hortis, in spectaculis, in tabernis vsque ad crapulam, et ebrietatem, et pinguia manducans et bibens, ac in bestiarum morem, luxuriam prauam exercens.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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December besought him to be gracious to the cattle now feeding peacefully on the winter pasture: -- ludit herboso pecus omne campo cum tibi Nonae redeunt Decembres: festus in _pratis_ vacat otioso cum bove pagus.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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