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  • One windowed obelisque near the center poked through the mass.

    Ringworld Niven, Larry, 1938- 1970

  • One windowed obelisque near the center poked through the mass.

    Ringworld Niven, Larry, 1938- 1970

  • You are making a fool of yourself: are not those the words I ought to have uttered when, standing in the centre of the Piazza del Popolo -- the sunny centre: so it had been inexorably arranged -- I used to wait and wait, with eyes glued to the clock hard by, in the slender shadow of that obelisque which crawled reluctantly, like the finger of fate, over the burning stones?

    Alone Norman Douglas 1910

  • LcgitUr narratio de apparitione angeli, a quo corroborarus eft Jefiis, Lucae XXII, 43. habcturquc heic clarum faeculi IV ineuntis, atquc antiquiffimumi id quidem, teftimonium de gcnuinitare iectionis, a multis Digitized by VjOOQIC multis criticis ex auctoritate codicum, qui vel planc omitterent, vel aftedfcis obelisque fignarent damna - rentque, in dubium vocatae.

    Fragmenta patrum Graecorum Friedrich Münter 1788

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