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If we may presume to suppose that any habit could be bad which 'that nice, that elegant, that interesting young ilian, * Lord Portargis had ever adopted, we shoidd say, that of calling his filths
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Otherwise, good luck not trashing the carpet with chain spooge and varied other road filths, no matter how well you cleaned before packing it up for travel.
Flights of Fancy: The Art of Unsimplification BikeSnobNYC 2010
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"Otherwise, good luck not trashing the carpet with chain spooge and varied other road filths, no matter how well you cleaned before packing it up for travel."
Flights of Fancy: The Art of Unsimplification BikeSnobNYC 2010
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The sordor and filths of nature, the sun shall dry up, and the wind exhale.
Nature 2006
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And they say that the fire shall cleanse them of all filths and of all vices, and they shall go pured and clean into another world to their husbands, and they shall lead their children with them.
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For there were wont to be so many such manner of filths, that the monks were in will to leave the place and the abbey, and were from thence upon the mountain above to eschew that place; and our Lady came to them and bade them turn again, and from thence forwards never entered such filth in that place amongst them, ne never shall enter hereafter.
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For he upon that speech burst out of that pit so deep, wherein he was wilfully plunged, and was blinded with its wretched pastimes; and he shook his mind with a strong self-command; whereupon all the filths of the Circensian pastimes flew off from him, nor came he again thither.
The Confessions 1999
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For he upon that speech burst out of that pit so deep, wherein he was wilfully plunged, and was blinded with its wretched pastimes; and he shook his mind with a strong self-command; whereupon all the filths of the Circensian pastimes flew off from him, nor came he again thither.
The Sixth Book 1909
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The sordor and filths of nature, the sun shall dry up.
Formations. 1908
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The passion of our Lord was bitter for the sorrow that he suffered in derisions despitous and of many filths fructuous.
The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900
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