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  • A particularly interesting plate (at left), illustrating a large deep-sea fish Beebe named the "untouchable bathysphere fish," or Bathysphaera intacta, which he sighted at a depth of 2,100 feet off the coast of Bermuda.

    "Grow till tall. They all, in the end, will fall." aliceoddcabinet 2010

  • La potestad de aprobar o denegar el presupuesto siempre la tuvo intacta el Congreso Nacional de Honduras y nadie puede mostrar una ley propuesta por el presidente Zelaya o siquiera un decreto presidencial para quitarle al Congreso su potestad y sus funciones.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » CRS on the Honduras “Coup”: 2009

  • Fortunately for my sexual health, none of them were remotely interested which is why I reached 18 with my virginity intacta.

    Ronnie Wood and Addictive Behaviour juliette 2008

  • Fortunately for my sexual health, none of them were remotely interested which is why I reached 18 with my virginity intacta.

    Archive 2008-07-01 juliette 2008

  • McDonald said, in his medical opinion, the Esquimaux girl appeared to be between fifteen and twenty years old — it was so hard to tell with native peoples — had experienced menarche, but was, by all indications, virgo intacta.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • Quam mulcent aurae, firmat sol, educat imber, &c. Sic virgo dum intacta manet, dum chara suis, sed

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Pardon my slaughtering of Latin, but I think that comes out, Senator Warner, as a vain attempt at dignita intacta.

    November 2005 2005

  • As was the fashion, she was examined by a team of experts, who would then testify that she was indeed still virgo intacta.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2007

  • The term for virgin, as we know it, would have been 'virgo intacta'.

    More on publishing the Good Book Miss Snark 2006

  • Ad principalis autem turris dextram in descensu 16. graduum, est diuersorij locus, vbi ex intacta et benedicta Virgine nascebatur

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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