Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An exclamation in drinking-bouts.
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Examples
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Malagasy · Myanmar: rivo-mahery vaika nandrava an'i Mandalay
Global Voices in English » Myanmar: Rogue Wind Blasted through Mandalay City 2009
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Malagasy · Taiwan: Tantaran'ireo sisa tsy maty tamin'ny rivo-doza Morakot
Global Voices in English » Taiwan: Stories of the survivors from Typhoon Morakot 2009
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I also know that there is a capital somewhere near the middle of the island, the name of which begins with an ` Ant, 'and ends with a ` rivo.'
The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar Francis B. Pearson 1859
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Go where he might, he had his message to every one; to a servant lass, to a poor wanderer on the bleak streets, to gentle and simple — he flowed forever _pleno rivo_.
Spare Hours John Brown 1846
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MI JESU! exclamat, vel quid simile; ac subito respiciens nec hostem nec ullum alium conspicit, equum solum gravissimo nuper casu afflictum, per summam pacem in rivo fluvii pascentem.
Marmion Walter Scott 1801
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Quale fopor feffis in gramine, quale per seftum Dulcis aquae faliente fitim reftinguere rivo:
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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Quale fopor feflis in gramine, quale per aeftum Dulcis aquae faliente fitim reftinguere rivo:
P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796
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Sua qujetus quifque fub arbore Cenam pudici cum focil toti y Gnatifque profternet, propinquo Pocula praetereunte rivo»
Matthiae Casimiri Sarbievii e Societate Jesu, Carmina Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Joannes Michael van der Ketten 1791
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a river, rivales, a [6022] rivo; for as a river, saith
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