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  • January 27, 2008 at 1:53 pm but eben uglie kittehs r prettee-er than afrege hyoomens.

    dorky jr high pic - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • He is called an 'uglie Pope Bonifacius;' also a 'bricklayer;' and he is asked why, instead of building chimneys and laying down bricks, he makes 'nothing but railes' -- 'filthy rotten railes' -- upon which alone his Muse leans.

    Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis

  • A writer of the sixteenth century speaks of “Midsommer pageants in London, where to make the people wonder, are set forth great and uglie gyants marching as if they were alive, and armed at all points, but within they are stuffed full of browne paper and tow, which the shrewd boyes, underpeering, do guilefully discover, and turne to a greate derision.

    Chapter 64. The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires. § 2. The Burning of Men and Animals in the Fires 1922

  • A writer of the sixteenth century speaks of "Midsommer pageants in London, where to make the people wonder, are set forth great and uglie gyants marching as if they were alive, and armed at all points, but within they are stuffed full of browne paper and tow, which the shrewd boyes, underpeering, do guilefully discover, and turne to a greate derision."

    The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

  • For, this infinite varietie and dissemblance of lustres, makes a face so wan, so ill-favored, and so uglie, in respect of theirs, that they lose much more than gaine thereby.

    Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson. 1909

  • "Midsommer pageants in London, where to make the people wonder, are set forth great and uglie gyants marching as if they were alive, and armed at all points, but within they are stuffed full of browne paper and tow, which the shrewd boyes, underpeering, do guilefully discover, and turne to a greate derision."

    The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

  • A writer of the sixteenth century speaks of “Midsommer pageants in London, where to make the people wonder, are set forth great and uglie gyants marching as if they were alive, and armed at all points, but within they are stuffed full of browne paper and tow, which the shrewd boyes, underpeering, do guilefully discover, and turne to a greate derision.”

    The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion 1583

  • For, this infinite varietie and dissemblance of lustres, makes a face so wan, so il-favored, and so uglie, in respect of theirs, that they lose much more than gaine thereby.

    Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Various 1562

  • him gives awl teh kittehs kitmus milk an ponees an sords foar awl teh littl kiddlins, awl awn teh big greezy splintry slay drawd bai 8 fat uglie pokey trottrs.

    oh no! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007

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