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  • Their biggest hit in the Netherlands was "Nescio" (1983), a tribute to the Dutch author Jan Hendrik Frederik Grönloh.

    AvaxHome RSS: 2008

  • "Docs seek gag orders to stop patients 'reviews" [MSNBC] (Thanks to Melissa!) (Photo: Ubi Desperare Nescio)

    Going To The Doc? Be Sure You Don't Sign A Gag Order - The Consumerist 2009

  • Nescio quid dicas. on July 18, 2008 at 2: 24 pm | Reply uniform

    Another Form Of Relief « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • They can square circles, but understand not the state of their own souls, describe right lines and crooked, &c. but know not what is right in this life, quid in vita rectum sit, ignorant; so that as he said, Nescio an Anticyram ratio illis destinet omnem.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Nescio vos,’ whence are you, workers of iniquity?

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Linnaeus said long ago, Nescio quae facies laeta, glabra plantis

    Walking 1969

  • * Nescio an facilior hic locus fuisset, si nemo eum exposuisset.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • [238] "Nescio an facilior hic locus fuisset, si nemo eum exposuisset."

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • Nescio quis forms a compound indefinite pronoun with the force of _some one or other_; as, -- causidicus nescio quis, _some pettifogger or other_; mīsit nescio quem, _he sent some one or other_; nescio quō pactō, _somehow or other_.

    New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

  • Their mode of bewitching is various: by fascination or casting an evil eye ( 'Nescio,' says the Virgilian shepherd, 'quis teneros oculus mihi fascinat agnos'); by making representations of the person to be acted upon in wax or clay, roasting them before a fire; by mixing magical ointments or other compositions and ingredients revealed to us in the witch-songs of Shakspeare, Jonson, Middleton, Shadwell, and others; sometimes merely by muttering an imprecation.

    The Superstitions of Witchcraft Howard Williams

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