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  • And then there were the caterpillars who stripped down not only my Incense and caerulea vines, but also consumed several more rare plants I had potted up, a trauma from which said smaller passis never recovered.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • I've tried pollinating it with my incarnata flowers--some of the few passis that have survived the summer for me--so we'll see soon whether or not it will produce fruit for me.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • And then there were the caterpillars who stripped down not only my Incense and caerulea vines, but also consumed several more rare plants I had potted up, a trauma from which said smaller passis never recovered.

    Jayme Lynn Blaschke's Gibberish 2009

  • I've tried pollinating it with my incarnata flowers--some of the few passis that have survived the summer for me--so we'll see soon whether or not it will produce fruit for me.

    Jayme Lynn Blaschke's Gibberish 2009

  • Less hoep dat fings get bakk to wat passis fur nermul rownd heer berry sune!

    i blows bubblez in ur milk - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • This time, however, I'd expect the odds are much improved on having passis blooming by midsummer.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • Ille vero nichil hujus generis malebat, manibus ante oculos passis, ne mulieris formositatem adspiceret: postea illum magica percussit arte, at mortuum efferebat inde cum fletibus et vagitibus, et me per timorem expulit ad ostium magni fluminis, velivoli, porro in nave, in qua te peperi, vix post dies huc Athenas vecta sum.

    She Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Pransus sum Streathamiae agninum crus coctum cum herbis (spinach) comminutis, farcimen farinaceum cum uvis passis, lumbos bovillos, et pullum gallinae: Turcicae; et post carnes missas, ficus, uvas, non admodum maturas, ita voluit anni intemperies, cum malis Persicis, iis tamen duris.

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • *terns odd colurs an passis owt next to prysma-kitteh*

    Fool me once, shame on you. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • *passis arownd sordid types uv pi wif nilla ai screem*

    dis my impreshun of u - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

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