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He was preti-clear that the war in Iraq was going to be a cakewalk.
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Wooooooo I can has flyingz an be tabby in the ski wiv dimunds, lookie at all the preti kulurs
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He never passed one of the _preti_ that he did not open his batteries, pouring grape and canister of sarcasm and indignation on the retreating enemy, -- "rascally beetles," "human vampires," "Satan's imps."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Various
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Adesso è il carnovale dei preti: _ -- "Our carnival is over, and that of the priests has come."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various
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Sicine hoc fit? foras aedibus me eici? promerenti optume hocin preti redditur? bene merenti mala es, male merenti bona es; at malo cum tuo, nam iam ex hoc loco 130 ibo ego ad tres viros vostraque ibi nomina faxo erunt, capitis te perdam ego et filiam, perlecebrae, permities, adulescentum exitium. nam mare haud est mare, vos mare acerrumum; nam in mari repperi, his elavi bonis.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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At nunc dehinc scito illum ante omnes minimi mortalem preti, madidum, nihili, incontinentem atque osorem uxoris suae.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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The cabman who, yesterday evening, took me to Palazzo Gabbrielli instead of Palazzo Orsini, excused himself saying that priests even blunder at the altar -- "anche li preti sbajano all 'altare."
The Spirit of Rome Vernon Lee 1895
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As _i preti_ (the Catholic papers) had said that all who took part in the Carnival were paid by the government, a number of men and women, in the handsomest carriages -- according to the _Nuova
Recollections of My Childhood and Youth Georg Morris Cohen Brandes 1884
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But they shared the universal geniality and bequeathed me no midnight fears as a pretext for keeping Lent, the < i > carnevale dei preti , as I read in that profanely radical sheet the < i > Capitale .
Italian Hours Henry James 1879
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