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  • I bet you even if you had a pedestrian path from NY to LA, people would still pay to fly and/or take a car, train orbus.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Do Markets Give Us Too Many Choices? 2007

  • Multa sane hinc consequuentur absurda, et si nihil aliud, tot Cometae in aethere animadversi, qui nullius orbus ductum comitantur, id ipsum sufficienter refellunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Et ego incedo orbus, et filius derelictionis domus meae erit iste Dammescenus

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • Ille utroque circumfluus uitam caelibem deflet; ille nuptiis felix orbus liberis alieno censum nutrit heredi.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • The word orbi may be either the plural nominative of orbus meaning "deprived" "orphaned," or it may be the dative singular of Orbis meaning "for the world."

    Bacon is Shake-Speare Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence 1875

  • [71] Johnson records of this Good Friday: -- 'My design was to pass part of the day in exercises of piety, but Mr. Boswell interrupted me; of him, however, I could have rid myself; but poor Thrale, _orbus et exspes_, came for comfort, and sat till seven, when we all went to church.'

    Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767

  • Inoculation grows more and more in vogue in England though somie there have died of it, I conjecture it may proceed from the Regis ad exemplum totus componitur orbus.

    Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

  • »»Qoid ego ita orbus iiberis? vivitne proles pater?

    Analysis operum S.S. patrum et scriptorum ecclesiasticorum 1790

  • [71] Johnson records of this Good Friday: ” 'My design was to pass part of the day in exercises of piety, but Mr. Boswell interrupted me; of him, however, I could have rid myself; but poor Thrale, orbus et exspes, came for comfort, and sat till seven, when we all went to church.'

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • "The orbus component of the Simba 2005 system has collapsed.

    The Standard | Headlines 2009

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