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So of verbs: kallo saya buli jalan, If I could walk: this may be termed the preter-imperfect tense of the subjunctive or potential mood of the verb jalan; whereas it is in fact a sentence of which jalan, buli, etc. are constituent words.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795
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In the beginning -- we use this word in a kind of preter-perfect sense -- in the _very_ beginning of things, immense portions of infinite space were filled with finely diffused nebulous matter, heated to an intensity that is altogether inconceivable.
A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' Francis Bowen 1850
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Generally speaking it comprised exclusive words tantum (only), solus (alone), exceptive words such as preter (except), nisi (unless), consecutive words such as si (if) and nisi (if not), the words incipit (begins) and desinit (ceases), the modal terms necessario (necessarily) and contingenter
Peter of Spain Spruyt, Joke 2007
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[Footnote: The preposition "preter" indicates the movement of something alongside of and passing beyond something else.
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922
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Via some mystical process or processes that I may or may not believe (in some preter-anderthal part of my mind) is accomplished by putting mermaids and puppies into a room with tubs of ink and stern, unrelenting robot masters.
Meaney's Goth Noir Sci-Fantasy Lou Anders 2007
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Note 118: Canon, 1.3.1, fol. 65vb: "Deinde fiat ut in primis super ventrem sui iaceat, postea supra dorsum, et preter hoc totum incessanter fricetur et prematur, et figuretur: deinde ad ipsum cum panno fasciandum est redeundum." back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Note 63: Annales Marbacenses, p. 83: "Reliqui vero pervenientes Romam, cum viderent, quod non poterant habere processum utpote nulla fulti auctoritate, tandem laborem suum cognoverunt esse frivolum et inanem, et tamen a voto crucis minime fuerunt absoluti preter pueros infra annos discretionis existentes et eos quos senium deprimebat." back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Genre SoulcaliburIII que j'me suis fait un plaisir de preter a mon beau frere!!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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Campus aget gemitus, vel que Tyberine, videbis Funera, cum tumulum, preter labere recentem.
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Suggestion (what a miserable name!) perfectly explains the stigmata of St. Francis and others without preter-natural assistance, and the curative effect of a dose of Koran (a verset written upon a scrap of paper, and given like a pill of p.q.).
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