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If they're on their game, they'll throw down a challenge to the West Coast headl iners.
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Some think fools and dizzards live the merriest lives, as Ajax in Sophocles, Nihil scire vita jucundissima, 'tis the pleasantest life to know nothing; iners malorum remedium ignorantia, ignorance is a downright remedy of evils.
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God who endowed it with these properties; my chaos includes not the forces you imagine — “nec quidquam nisi pondus iners”; it was a powerless mass; “pondus” here signifies not weight but mass.
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[3615] Quid nisi pondus iners stolidaeque ferocia memtis, What in Osus and Ephialtes (Neptune's sons in Homer), nine acres long?
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L'Action (1893) was criticized by his Sorbonne exam - iners, partisans of Renan's scientism, for its religiosity.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas JOHN RATT 1968
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As he listened with half - closed eyes to that faint pulsing, sometimes almost drowned by the cosmic barrage, he knew how the mar - iners of old must have felt when they caught the first glimpse of the harbour lights from far out at sea.
The Sands of Mars Clarke, Arthur C. 1951
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I passed at the foot of the venerable Mount Ararat, and was fortunate enough to meet with a favourable moment for traversing the cold regions of Arminia, _nec Armeniis in oris stat glacies iners menses per omnes_; and I crossed the dangerous borders of Turkey and Persia without any event occurring worthy of record.
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan James Morier
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Sed ubi in Africam venit, exercitus ei traditur a Sp. Albino pro consule iners, imbellis, neque periculi neque laboris patiens, lingua quam manu promptior, praedator [255] ex sociis et ipse praeda hostium, sine imperio et modestia habitus.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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How forcibly does this distinguished jurist illustrate the remark of Cicero in his Treatise on Old Age: "Sed videtis, ut senectus non modo languida atque iners non sit, verum etiam sit operosa, et semper agens aliquid et moliens; tale scilicet, quod cujusque studium in superiore vita fuit."
An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition George Sharswood
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'Quae nunc nomen habent operosi signa Maronis Pondus iners quondam duraque massa fuit.
The Works of Max Beerbohm Max Beerbohm 1914
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