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  • Nadgel, dat we're a sottin 'here comf'rably enjoyin' our wittles ober de mout 'ob a v'licano as is quite fit to blow us all to bits an' hois 'us into de bery middle ob next week -- if not farder? "

    Blown to Bits or, The Lonely Man of Rakata 1859

  • Nadgel, dat we're a sottin 'here comf'rably enjoyin' our wittles ober de mout 'ob a v'licano as is quite fit to blow us all to bits an' hois 'us into de bery middle ob next week -- if not farder? "

    Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago 1859

  • The gentleman never raised a hue and cry over it just cos of hois mother who assured him that he would pay the dues but it was not to be.

    Torrential Reign 2005

  • The gentleman never raised a hue and cry over it just cos of hois mother who assured him that he would pay the dues but it was not to be.

    Torrential Reign 2005

  • Chu-hois were often used in Provincial Reconnaissance Units (see PRU), CINC: Commander-IN-Chief.

    Rogue Warrior Marcinko, Richard 1992

  • Scripture for itself, as that which needeth no antecedent or external demonstration, but all the evidence and demonstration of its divine original is to be taken from itself alone; which yet he farther confirms: Ou gar haplos apophainomenois anthropois prosechoimen, hois kai antapophainesthai ep 'ises exestin.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • * Ou gar haplos apophainomenois anthropois prosechoimen, hois kai antapophainesthai ep 'ises exestin.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • [Greek: Phthenxomai hois themis osti, thuras d 'epithesthe bebêlois.]

    The Theater (1720) Sir John Falstaffe

  • * Paresche Solomōni mathein ho theos kai tēn kata tōn daimonōn technēn eis ōpheleian kai therapeian tois anthrōpois; epōdas te suntaxamenos hais parēgoreitai ta nosēmata kai tropous exorkōseōn katelipen, hois hoi endoumenoi ta daimonia hōs mēket 'epanelthein ekdiōxousi; kai hautē mechri nun par' hēmin hē therapeia pleiston ischuei: [1042] 1

    The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

  • [550] Of hoi rhantizontes paides hoi euangelisamenoi hēmin tēn aphesin hamartiōn kai ton hannismon tēs kardias, hois edōken tou euangeliou tēn exousian — ousin dekaduo eis marturion tōn phulōn, hoti dekaduo phulai tou

    The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

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