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Naho wa i viela phakhoni, mafunguvhu a do rura: Whatever you do in secret is bound to come out one day.
ANC Today 2007
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* Naho wa i viela phakhoni, mafunguvhu a do rura: Whatever you do in secret is bound to come out one day.
ANC Today 2007
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You see the citizen with his family inveigled into the shallops of the mercenary native mariner, and fancy that the motion cannot be pleasant; and how the hirer of the boat, otium et oppidi laudat rura sui, haply sighs for ease, and prefers Richmond or Hampstead.
The Newcomes 2006
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Nobiles autem bibunt lac equarum, seu lamentorum, pro nobilissimo potu et pauperes aquam bullitam cum modico mellis, quia nec vinum ibi habetur, nec ceruisia confictur: et multi ac plurimi fontes consulunt in sua siti, per villas, et rura.
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Vnde plurima rura ignobiliora ab antiqua illa integritate multum declinarunt, et iam qu鎑am collapsa sunt, qu鎑am ruinam minantur.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Nobiles autem bibunt lac equarum, seu lamentorum, pro nobilissimo potu et pauperes aquam bullitam cum modico mellis, quia nec vinum ibi habetur, nec ceruisia confictur: et multi ac plurimi fontes consulunt in sua siti, per villas, et rura.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Vnde plurima rura ignobiliora ab antiqua illa integritate multum declinarunt, et iam quædam collapsa sunt, quædam ruinam minantur.
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The majority of her audience were people from poor rura and urban backgrounds who did not have enough money to spend on the sophisticated drug therapy unveiled at the 10th Interntional AIDS
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Her wealth came from the rosea rura, best pasture in all of Italy and breeding ground of fabulous stud donkeys which sold for enormous sums-sixty thousand sesterces was not an uncommon price for one such beast, potential sire of many sturdy army mules.
Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993
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“Probably owns a bit of the rosea rura at Reate,” said Mine Host.
Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993
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