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  • "Bring the knife back," I snarled, baring my fangs at him, and when he had scrambled up, grey-faced and terrified, and returned it, I touched the point on his chest and says: "Call Makarram Khan a pig just once more, ulla kabaja, * (* Son of an owl.) and I will carry thine eyes and genitals on this point as kebabs."

    Fiancée 2010

  • As the yelping died away down the silent road, the wailing sound of “Ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla,” reasserted itself.

    The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

  • Obama has to let the world see her hypocrisy juxtaposed with the ideals of what America is. ulla wrote on December 14, 2007 9: 51 PM:

    Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Obama: I Take Hillary "At Her Word" About Drug Comments 2009

  • “Ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla,” wailed that superhuman note—great waves of sound sweeping down the broad, sunlit roadway, between the tall buildings on each side.

    The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

  • I awoke to find that dismal howling still in my ears, “Ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla.”

    The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

  • It was a sobbing alternation of two notes, “Ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla,” keeping on perpetually.

    The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

  • Hoc solum tota vita persequere, ut praesentibus bene compositis, minime curiosus, aut ulla in re solicitus, quam plurimum potes vitam hilarem traducas.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Aegritudinem animi sine ulla rerum expectatione meliore, a sickness of the soul without any hope or expectation of amendment; which commonly succeeds fear; for whilst evil is expected, we fear: but when it is certain, we despair.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • I will say nothing of those prodigious prodigals, perdendae pecuniae, genitos, as he [1885] taxed Anthony, Qui patrimonium sine ulla fori calumnia amittunt, saith [1886] Cyprian, and [1887] mad sybaritical spendthrifts,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quibus omnis in armis vita placet, non ulla juvat nisi morte, nec ullam esse putant vitam, quae non assueverit armis.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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