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  • And here's a bit more about nulla-nullas, information I'd likely never have looked for if not for a crime novel.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Peter Rozovsky 2010

  • Turres sunt fastigiatæ, ultra celsitudinem omnnem, quæ fieri manu possit; itaque mensuram umbrarum egressæ, nullas habent umbras, regum pecuniæ otiosa ac stulta ostentatio.

    The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

  • An exact census was not taken, for with spears and nulla-nullas and big swords, each warrior having the protection of a shield, the treacherous band swept on the deluded guests of their leader, whose hostile yells scandalised the meek phrases and friendly signs of a short hour before.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • Several carried weapons — nulla-nullas and wooden swords — and assumed hostile attitudes.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • The party on the bank hauls on the line, and in spite of protests and struggling the game is landed, to be chopped and beaten to death with tomahawks and nulla-nullas.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • While he was thus defending himself against the spears and nulla-nullas of outrageous fortune, the captain made wide, sweeping movements with the butt of his rifle, and the other man and the boy, the boat being by this time afloat, tugged at the oars.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • He carried, somewhat ostentatiously, a tomahawk and a couple of nulla-nullas.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • Blacks, understanding their habits, climb particular trees known to be well patronised, and as the birds swoop down to rest, kill them easily with a swoop of a long slender stick, or hurl nulla-nullas into the home-coming flocks, just as they alight.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • 'Caesar in arma furens nullas nisi sanguine fuso gaudet habere vias'; v. 242,

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • From prose compare Cic _II Verr_ IV 124 'confirmare hoc _liquido_, iudices, possum, ualuas magnificentiores ... nullas umquam ullo in templo fuisse', _II Verr_ III 136, _Fam_ XI 27 7 'alia sunt quae _liquido_ negare soleam', and Sen _Ben_ VII 9 5.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

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