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  • Their defiance survives linguistically: In Arabic, the “top” sodomite is luti, meaning “of [the people of] Lot.”

    The Kingdom in the Closet 2007

  • Their defiance survives linguistically: In Arabic, the “top” sodomite is luti, meaning “of [the people of] Lot.”

    The Kingdom in the Closet 2007

  • Notum est enim porcos, cum hortos amænissimos intrarint, nec lilium nec rosas aut flores alioqui pulcherrimos et suauissimos decerpere: Sed rostro in coenum prono, quicquid est luti et stercoris volutare, vertere et inuertere, donec impurissima, hoc est, suo genio apprimè congruentia eruant, vbi demum solida voluptate pascuntur.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Notum est enim porcos, cum hortos am鎛issimos intrarint, nec lilium nec rosas aut flores alioqui pulcherrimos et suauissimos decerpere: Sed rostro in coenum prono, quicquid est luti et stercoris volutare, vertere et inuertere, donec impurissima, hoc est, suo genio apprim� congruentia eruant, vbi demum solida voluptate pascuntur.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • "I'll veil it, my son," said he, laying his hand on my shoulder, "in the decent obscurity of a learned language, '_Canis reversus ad suum vomitum et sus lota in volutabro luti_.'"

    The Belovéd Vagabond William John Locke 1896

  • I was old enough, or perhaps rather I had gathered experience enough, to feel a shock of disgust at Paragot's return _in volutabro luti_.

    The Belovéd Vagabond William John Locke 1896

  • [1665] "Hirundines luto construunt, stramine roborant: si quando inopia est luti, madefactae multa aqua pennis pulverem spargunt."

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • Shelter, and the usual rude accommodation, supplemented on this occasion by a wandering luti and his vicious-looking baboon, as also a company of riotous charvadars, who insist on singing accompaniments to the luti's soul-harrowing tom-toming till after midnight, are obtained at the caravansarai of Deh Mollah.

    Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

  • The luti plays a sort of "whangadoodle" tune on a guitar, and manipulates the string so as to make the deer keep time to the tune.

    Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

  • Now and then, when the crowd with no money to spend becomes too clamorous about the doorway, the luti goes to the assistance of the guards, and giving the mandril the length of his chain, chases the people away.

    Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

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