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It is heavily based on two horribile oils- SOY and CANOLA.
6-Week Cure blog idea | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009
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One is permissible even if its vile, even if its horribile, even if its racist, even if I find it painful to look at.
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Annus horribile, or however one conjugates the Latin.
between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day hawkwing_lb 2006
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Dum tamen mírantur quis in eá séde habitáret, sonitum terribilem audívérunt, et oculís ad portam tortís mónstrum horribile vídérunt, húmáná quidem specié et figúrá, sed ingentí mágnitúdine corporis.
Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland
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Haud procul á valle ubi bovés páscébantur spélunca erat, in quá Cácus, horribile mónstrum, tum habitábat.
Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland
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A woman may be a very good, faithful wife and still enjoy the companionship of other men, the pressure of another man's hand or -- _horribile dictu_ -- even an occasional kiss.
Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson
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Partner, whom I had "made" with a drive well and truly apportioned -- _ex carne ictum_ -- partner, after much self-searching and mental recursion to the maxims of TOM MORRIS and LA ROUCHEFOUCAULD, took his ball on the -- _O horribile dictu_ (or shall I say _horresco referens_?) -- well, to be meticulously exact, partner shanked it.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20 Various
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God, and afterward, horribile dictu, pitchforks for little Margaret, and a vivid incandescent state to be maintained through eternity at vast cost of pit-coal to a gentleman who carried over his arm, so as not to step on it, a long snaky tail with a point like a harpoon's.
Aladdin O'Brien Gouverneur Morris 1914
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Original sin completely destroyed the freedom of will in fallen man; nevertheless, it is not the motive of the decretum horribile, as he himself calls the decree or reprobation.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Finally, "it is an awful decree, I confess [horribile decretum, fateor], but none can deny that God foreknew the future final fate of man before He created him -- and that He did foreknow it because it was appointed by His own ordinance."
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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