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With this in mind the Fiver is perhaps one of the few observers to adopt a kindly, frowning, guitar-playing Church of England bishop expression at the news this morning that fisco-maniac, priapically-texting, Cheryl-malaria-osmosing left-back Ashley Cole is "closing in" on a £30m transfer to Franco-stinking, fisco-doping, galactico-bullies Real Madrid.
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Foot an mouth fisco, the fuckwittery of Shambo the holy bullock mishandled by that cock Miliband when he headed Defra.
Labour party yap from 1996. FIDO The Dog 2009
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Whether it's a touching drama of childhood and loss, a languid mood piece that says more about Azerbaijan than we dare to say about ourselves, or a stinging indictment of the oppressive, warmongering logo-phallo-globo-fisco-patriarchy, he's always there with a gimlet eye and a wry Ken Nordine impression.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2006
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[170] Codex, iv, 12, 2, rescript of Diocletian: ob maritorum culpam uxores inquietari leges vetant. proinde rationalis noster, si res quae a fisco occupatae sunt dominii tui esse probaveris, ius publicum sequetur.
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_ 18, 'Primus e fisco Latinis Graecisque rhetoribus annua centena constituit.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Calagurritanus primus Romae publicam scholam et salarium e fisco accepit et claruit. '
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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A QUEMADA, Tract. de fisco inquisitionis (Toledo, 1564); LOCATI,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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[Footnote 394: 'Quia caduca bona fisco nostro competere legum cauta decreverunt.'] 'Enquire into this matter; and if it be as we are informed, reclaim for our Treasury so legitimate a possession.
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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[But the meaning may be, 'the marshes which you drain _sine fisco_' -- without help from the Treasury.]
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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Aquí no hay nada del fisco, nada de dominio público, nada del Estado.
Novelas Cortas Pedro Antonio de Alarc��n 1862
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