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  • A civit-cat suffers from the same drawbacks in a social way, but the advantage to the civit-cat is that as a general thing it associates only with other civit-cats.

    Speaking of Operations 1910

  • Lugudunen (sis): ex decreto ordinis respubl (ica) civit (atis) Silurum_ -- a monument erected by the cantonal senate of the Silures to some general of the Second legion at Isca Silurum, twelve miles from

    The Romanization of Roman Britain 1889

  • They made cakes of damask rose-leaves and pulvilio, civit, and musk, of

    Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

  • With so much bravery, how can he allow such a civit-cat as Edward Baliol to bear away the title, which is his by the double right of blood and virtue?

    The Scottish Chiefs 1875

  • The Braro so called by the French engages is an animal of the civit genus and much resembles the common badger. this is an enhabitent of the open plains of the Columbia as they are of those of the Missouri, but are sometimes also found in the woody country. they burrow in the hard Grounds in the Plains with surprising ease and dexterity and will cover themselves in the Ground in a very fiew minits. they have five long fixed nails on each foot; those of the [f] ore feet are much the longest; and one of those on each hind foot is double like those of the beaver. they weigh from 14 to

    Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904

  • St. Augustine gives a long list of extraordinary miracles wrought before his own eyes, mentions names and particulars, describes them as well known, and says they happened within two years before he published the written account (De civit.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

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