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  • The celebrant, having finished the preparatory prayers at the altar-steps, goes up to the altar and kisses it (saying meanwhile the two short prayers, A ufer a nobis and Oranges te); then, going to the left (Epistle) side, he reads from the Missal the Introit, just as it is sung.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • That night she was just coming on to what would prove to be an overdose of Hi-eropon, when S-ure, who back in those days was a curly-haired and good-looking kid, surprised her in her own bedroom with his hand around an ivory chess L-ufer with a sarcastic smile on its face, and filled with good raw Peruvian cocaine still full of the Earth - "Don't call for help," advises S-ure flashing his phony acid bottle, "or that pretty face goes flowing off of its bones like vanilla pudding."

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • Mezha, didn’t you hear it a deluge of times, ufer and ufer, respund to spond?

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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