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'Rise of the Cobra' sounds like a bad porn title dik yank wanker u spoilt cunt filmkid hahahaha very funny
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I mentioned to our driver Khalid, who helps me with the weekly shopping, that on Thursday there would be an American holiday and that I wanted a turkey (called dik-rhumi in Egypt) as everyone in America on Thursday would have one.
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(Il. 23. 542), and Hesiod describes as dikē his claim against his brother, which has been submitted for adjudication to the “gift-devouring princes” (W. & D. 39).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARTIN OSTWALD 1968
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The justice inherent in the idea of dikē as retribution is positively expressed especially in those passages in which dikē is contrasted with hybris, as it is in Hesiod's exhortations to his brother to listen to dikē and not incur hybris and to forget violence because dikē will triumph over hybris in the end (W. & D. 213, 217, cf. 275), or in Theognis 'belief that shamelessness and arrogance have vanquished dikē all over the earth (291-92).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARTIN OSTWALD 1968
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In the Iliad this kind of dikē, which may best be rendered as “justice,” is said to be driven out by men who adjudicate crooked themistes (Il. 16. 387-88; cf.W. & D. 224), while in the
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARTIN OSTWALD 1968
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Zeus will notice what kind of dikē a city practices
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARTIN OSTWALD 1968
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Closely related to this is the contestable kind of dikē, which comes close to the meaning of themis (“title,”
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARTIN OSTWALD 1968
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Guys on safari wearing safari jackets shoot things all day, things with funny names … like dik diks, teeny little antelopes with tiny Satan spikes on their lovely little heads.
The tenth point of possession being this ... James Lloyd Davis 2011
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If the article's basic thesis were true, by now we should be shooting whitetails with the body size of a dik dik, the rack of a pygmy goat and the brain of a TSA airport screener, right?
Survival of the Weakest? Dave Hurteau 2009
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Awaiting moderation??? for saying … Yeah, Bart, keep following your convictions that women need a washed up limp dik cop and a bunch of child molestors to tell them what to do with their bodies.
johnmperry commented on the word dik
10 in North of England sheep counting jargon. See yan
September 26, 2008