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[13] "Arantur Gallicana rura _barbaris bobus_, et juga Germanica captiva praebent colla nostris cultoribus."
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various
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CLÉOPÂTRE, reine d'Égypte, qui captiva César et Antoine.
French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann
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The metrical difficulties can be remedied by emendation _palare_ for _palari_ (43) is a solecism, but many verbs are found in both active and deponent forms, and _palare_ may be a slip, or even an invention by analogy. _captiva_ (52) does not = the Italian _cattiva_ or the French _chétive_.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Tullius · si · nostros · sequimur · captiva · natus · ocresia · si · tuscos · coeli · quandam · vivennæ · sodalis · fidelissimus · omnisque
A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, Volume II (of 2) Philip Thicknesse 1755
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I've had my captiva for 1 and a half years and it has'nt broken down once.
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September 26, 2008 at 1: 26 pm we bought the holden captiva our first major problem is the electronic malfunction light always appearing on the dashboard the dealer tried to fix it up but it always appear we are not happy for the reasons that it is a safety issue that needs to be deal with because it might
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The tantalizingly ends of the south seas captiva tusker were unwontedly basidiosporous and cercarial with cewa and uncorrectable to the anthropocentricity trillium.
Rational Review 2009
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..guess i'll pass on that visit to 'randy wayne white' on captiva island 'til this all blows over w/ the next tropical storm...obligatory-"obscure but popular"-author reference...
Rotting from the Bottom Up: Whither the Entry-Level Road Group? BikeSnobNYC 2008
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Hoftilem ad tumulum Trojs fub mocnibus altis Juila mori« quae fortitus non pertulit ullos Nec vidoris heri tetigit captiva cubile!
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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* Fide perdita, spe relicta, intelligentia obcaecata, voluntate captiva, homo qua in se reparetur non invenit.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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