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  • Her Act II aria " Mi trad ì quell ' alma ingrata " is delivered with entirely believable passion.

    A Paul Levy 2010

  • I played over and over again ( "Mi tradi quell 'alma ingrata" and "Fuggi, crudele, fuggi").

    Becoming Susan Sontag Eisenberg, Deborah 2008

  • Me quedo con el sabor amargo de esta ingrata experiencia, pense que istalar WIN yUBUNTU seria mas facil que instalar WIN y LEOPARD, (los he instalado un sinnumero de veces en PCs y en MACS particionadas) pero WINDOWS con UBUNTU definitivamente no se llevan, un enigma para mi … Bueno esperare otra FLISOL o que el sistema sea MAS AMIGABLE, o esperar pacientemente la lenta marcha del software libre.

    Ecuador: A Weekend of Free Software Throughout the Country 2008

  • Perquam ridiculum est homines ex animi sententia vivere, et quae Diis ingrata sunt exequi, et tamen a solis Diis vella solvos fieri, quum propriae salutis curam abjecerint.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • É uma tarefa ingrata, que acaba sempre por correr mais ou menos bem.

    Reunião de pais Artur 2006

  • Por um lado, arrepende-se até à medula por ter escolhido tão ingrata profissão.

    Quando Chove... Artur 2005

  • Germany is essentially the persona ingrata everywhere it presents itself.

    New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various

  • They appear to have been written by the author in 1520; and at the conclusion, he has added, "Vale ingrata patria."

    Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850 Various

  • A surrender like that would have thrown the worst light on all preceding resistance and would have made the subsequent submission to force appear as 'vis haud ingrata.

    My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

  • Why at sea I made my money, here I am cleaned out of it. ingrata atque inrita esse omnia intellego quae dedi et quod bene feci, at posthac tibi male quod potero facere faciam, meritoque id faciam tuo. ego pol te redigam eodem unde orta es, ad egestatis terminos, ego edepol te faciam ut quae sis nunc et quae fueris scias.

    Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

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