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  • Why hasn't the speaker called a quarum and those that refuse to attend be considered in contempt and put the vote through anyhow.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Hinc erunt adaptationes mirabiles, quarum modus est hic.

    cytokinesis Diary Entry cytokinesis 2008

  • Duae Veneres duo amores; quarum una antiquior et sine matre, coelo nata, quam coelestem Venerem nuncupamus; altera vero junior a Jove et Dione prognata, quam vulgarem Venerem vocamus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Nazianzen of old, to Chilo his scholar, offerebant se mihi visendae mulieres, quarum praecellenti elegantia et decore spectabili tentabatur meae. integritas pudicitiae.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • They need 218 votes, a quarum, in order to pass this legislation that would call the federal court to examine what the state courts in Florida have done about Terri Schiavo --- Carol.

    CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2005 2005

  • Aethiopia consistit à terra Chaldeorum in Austrum, quæ distinguitur in Orientalem Aethiopiam, et [‘and’ in source text — KTH] Meridionalem, quarum prima in illis partibus vocatur Cush, propter hominum nigredinem, altera Mauritania.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • In ista habentur renominatæ ciuitates, quarum meliores duæ dicuntur

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Intra hanc Insulam, quatuor sunt genera arborum, de quarum vna accipitur farina ad panem, de secunda mel, de tertia vinum, et de quarta pessimum venenum.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Illudunt nobis conjecturae nostrae, quarum nos pudet, posteaquam in meliores cofices incidimus.

    Preface to Shakespeare 2004

  • Sciendum tamen est, extra hanc insulam flumen esse, et alias modicas insulas, quarum vna dicitur Carmagite, de quibus licitum est ijs accessire viros, et amasios bis in anno, ita vt nulla moram trahat septem dierum naturalium sub poena indubitata occisionis.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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