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( "pollice" in Italian or "pulgar" in Spanish), I for the index ( "indice" in Italian and Spanish), M for the middle finger ( "medio" in Italian and Spanish) and A for the ring finger
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The media quite rightly cover police officer deaths to the nth degree and they have every right, indeed responsibility, to do the same when members of the public die after contact with the pollice.
Police Officer Seriously Injured « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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The pollice said because it was a private road they coudl do nothing,but when in my home, I quite angrily told them off and that they were useless and accountable if anything happened to my Mother,they threatened to charge me for assualtfor getting angry.
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A pollice team from South Africa, led by Commissioner Suiker
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The pollice would work closely with the Justice Department to process suspects and deny bail to serious offenders.
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He said that pollice "recovered" 12 government vehicles and this figure grew to 20 recovered last month.
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[Sidenote: The pollicie of Zopyrus.] then to their walles, he willed them to proclame ope [n] warre, forthwith they encountred with the Persians, and for a time victorie fel on the Babilonians side, suche was the pollice of
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Huius enim uini miraculosi sapor solito graciosior erat, et odor in propinatoris pollice quamdiu suruixit redoleuit.
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'Tenues ignavo pollice chordas pulso, Maroneique sedens in margine templi sumo animum et magni tumulis adcanto magistri.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Socratico, Cornute, sinu. tune fallere sollers adposita intortos extendit regula mores, et premitur ratione animus vincique laborat artificemque tuo ducit sub pollice vultum. tecum etenim longos memini consumere soles, et tecum primas epulis decerpere noctes. unum opus et requiem pariter disponimus ambo, atque verecunda laxamus seria mensa. non equidem hoc dubites, amborum foedere certo consentire dies et ab uno sidere duci: nostra vel aequali suspendit tempora libra
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
whichbe commented on the word pollice
I heard this on the news today, regarding the influence of polling on elections.
February 16, 2008