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  • noun Only in spiro compound

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Examples

  • November 18, 2009, 9: 01 pm spiro: ooooh, the HOAs in suburban developments all over the country will REVOLT!

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » If CO2 Alarmists Have Their Way… 2009

  • November 17, 2009, 7: 13 pm spiro: again, this is why my ancestors LEFT Europa and settled here. 200 years later, and British society (and their regard for the immutable Law) still looks like a Dickens novel.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The New Gold Standard in Zero-Tolerance Insanity 2009

  • “No,” he said begrudgingly, “but dum spiro spero, as they say.”

    The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011

  • October 9, 2009, 5: 22 pm spiro: re: Obama and the “international community”

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » News So Absurd There Is Almost No Point In Commenting On It 2009

  • Now, I am riff-raff, when I have to be, and so long as I can see a glimmer at the end of the passage, well, dum spiro spero, * (* While I breathe I hope.) as we scholars say.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • Daliah Lavi david bowie dee milo definitions deitch delirium tremens denver deridre timmons devil-ettes devo diamondback annie diana yanez diane lane dick zigun dirty martini dissertation dita von teese diversity dixie evans documentary don spiro

    Burlesque Hall of Fame / Miss Exotic World Pageant Weekend Burlesque Daily 2009

  • Daliah Lavi david bowie dee milo definitions deitch delirium tremens denver deridre timmons devil-ettes devo diamondback annie diana yanez diane lane dick zigun dirty martini dissertation dita von teese diversity dixie evans documentary don spiro

    Shameless Self-Promotion!! Burlesque Daily 2009

  • Daliah Lavi david bowie dee milo definitions deitch delirium tremens denver deridre timmons devil-ettes devo diamondback annie diana yanez diane lane dick zigun dirty martini dissertation dita von teese diversity dixie evans documentary don spiro

    Lux Interior Passes Burlesque Daily 2009

  • (That spirit is, with exquisite fittingness, preserved in the motto of the recently crucial South Carolina: "Dum spiro spero.")

    NYT: Hillary Camp In Disarray, Sensing The End 2009

  • Daliah Lavi david bowie dee milo definitions deitch delirium tremens denver deridre timmons devil-ettes devo diamondback annie diana yanez diane lane dick zigun dirty martini dissertation dita von teese diversity dixie evans documentary don spiro

    Alice Cooper Striptease Burlesque Daily 2009

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