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  • I think they were all being very mean especial as I was singing the sing and every thing - snape snape severus snape - Dumbledore etc... ok if I can find the link I'll post it later it was really funny at the time.

    Snell-Pym » Christmas Day At the Chateau de Pym 2008

  • Interesting marsh birds found in the reclaimed areas include egrets Egretta alba, E. garzetta and E. intermedia, purple heron Ardea purpurea (a rare vagrant from Africa) and green-backed heron Butorides striatus, while birds of prey include osprey Pandion haliaetus, Pallas's sea-eagle Haliaeetus leucoryphus (R), white-bellied sea-eagle H. leucogaster, grey-headed fishing eagle Ichthyophaga ichthyaetus, peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus, Oriential hobby F. severus, northern eagle owl Bubo bubo and brown fish owl Ketupa zeylonensis.

    Sundarbans National Park, India 2008

  • Cogita an sic aliis tu unquam feceris; an hoc tibi nunc fieri dignum sit? severus aliis, indulgens tibi, cur. ab uxore exigis quod nori ipse praestas?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • In vita philosophus, in Epigram, amator, in Epistolis petulanus, in praeceptis severus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The Latin word is classical: persevero is constanter sum severus.

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • [1] Virilis, austerus, severus, dominous, good old words applied by Romans to themselves.

    Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous

  • Virilis, austerus, severus, dominous, good old words applied by Romans to themselves.

    The Scientific Monthly, October-December 1915 Scientific Monthly 1915

  • Avidius Cassius to his son-in-law (§ 14); which ends the Life and enables the biographer to observe that "that letter showed what a stern and cruel emperor Avidius Cassius must have been": "haec epistola ejus indicat, quam severus et quam tristis futurus fuerit imperator."

    Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852

  • 'Opera prelium vero est audire quam severus rex fuerit in pravos.

    Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies Jefferson, Thomas 1829

  • Operae pretium v ero est audire quam severus rex fuerit in pravos.

    Autobiography 1821

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