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U mai be rite dere – it messis up mai inturnul klokk!
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Ai nebber nue splortin cud mayk such messis ebberyware.
R Valentime? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Eftir the messis wer done with maist solempnitie and reverence, comperit afore him mony young and insolent baronis of Scotland, richt desirus to haif sum plesur and solace, be chace of hundis in the said forest.
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Posthac omnibus diebus terrae, sementis et messis, et frigus et aestus, et aestas et hyems, et dies et nox non cessabunt.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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Jam enim duo anni famis fuerunt in medio terrae, et adhuc quinque anni sunt, in quibus non erit aratio et messis.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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Ivit autem Reuben in diebus messis triticeac, et reperit mandrgoras in agro, et attulit eas Leah matri suae.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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For _prouenire_ = 'grow', see _AA_ III 101-2 'ordior a cultu: cultis bene Liber ab uuis/prouenit', _Fast_ IV 617 'largaque prouenit cessatis messis in aruis', and _Nux_ 10; for the metaphorical sense see
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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'Non ego divitias patrum fructusque requiro quos tulit antiquo condita messis avo.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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He also translated "messis sequitur sementem," with a fine simplicity, into "the harvest follows the seed-time;" and "actor sequitur forum rei," he made
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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But his painting of its harvest of colour is his own: quin et odoratis messis iam floribus instat: iam ver purpureum, iam versicoloribus anni fetibus alma parens pingi sua tempora gaudet. iam Phrygiae loti gemmantia lumina promunt et coniventis oculos violaria solvunt (255).
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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