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  • In the daytime the "pium" flies, vicious little sand-flies, became bad enough to make us finally use gloves and head - nets.

    Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • Keeping hearts of pium in mind enabled Ruumahum to arrange the grazer carcass on his back without falling asleep more than once in the process.

    Shopgirls Frederick Barthelme 2010

  • Nothing would please that overripe pium fruit more than to see Born vanish forever, leaving him a clear path to Brightly Go.

    Shopgirls Frederick Barthelme 2010

  • He would have preferred to sleep, but ... pium, now.

    Shopgirls Frederick Barthelme 2010

  • Every night he would smear ointment on the inaccessible bites of the pium flies and bandage cuts from the spiky palms and the blade grass.

    Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners 2009

  • Vidi sacerdotem optimum et pium, qui quod nollet uti

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [6807] Erasmus of such controversies: Pugnet qui volet, ego censeo leges majorum reverenter suscipiendas, et religiose observandas, velut a Deo profectas; nec esse tutum, nec esse pium, de potestate publica sinistram concipere aut serere suspicionem.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Fortem reddunt animum et constantem; et pium colloquium non permittit animum absurda cogitatione torqueri.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Et dicit liber Iesum sanctissimum omnium Prophetarum fuisse veracem in dictis et factis, benignum, pium, iustum, et ab omni vitio penitus alienum: Sanctum quoque Ioannem Euangelistam post prædictos Prophetas fuisse alijs Sanctiorem, cuius et Euangelium fatentur esse plenum salutari, ac veraci doctrina, et ipsum Sanctum

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Et dicit liber Iesum sanctissimum omnium Prophetarum fuisse veracem in dictis et factis, benignum, pium, iustum, et ab omni vitio penitus alienum: Sanctum quoque Ioannem Euangelistam post pr鎑ictos Prophetas fuisse alijs Sanctiorem, cuius et Euangelium fatentur esse plenum salutari, ac veraci doctrina, et ipsum Sanctum

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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