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Quelle veine d'habiter une telle région, n'est-ce pas?
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Its a cool console but if ya did buy it or you are going to buy it now you better be a VG Reviewer or something in that veine.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Sony releases $399 40GB PS3 for the US 2007
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Quelle veine d'habiter une telle région, n'est-ce pas ?
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Du coup j'ai l'arriere de la jambe decorée d'une belle bosse toute en longueur style hernie sauf que la c pas un organe mais une veine qui ressort de ma jambe!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007
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Ouais une veine carrement qui a rendu l'ame alors j'ai super mal a la jambe, logique ...
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007
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Dans la journee je verifie le rouge s'est estompé c qq peu rosé ... et s'estompe les heures passant ... pour ne laisser que deux gross veine rouge et qq nervure sur les coté.
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005
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It is a deintie to haue in Assiria a showre of raine: and therefore are thei constreined for the due moistyng of their lande, to tolle in the riuers by pollicie of trenching and damming: wherwith thei so plentifie their grounde, that thei communely receiue two hundred busshelles for a busshell, and in some speciall veine, three hundred for one.
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Louis XI. of France was supposed to drink the blood of babes, — “pour rajeunir sa veine epuisee.”
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Of Elements, the Fire the most pure and operatiue to hold the highest place; in compound bodies, of things as well sensible as insensible, there runneth a veine of Excellence proceeding from the Forme, ennobling (in the same kind) some other aboue the rest.
HIERARCHY AND ORDER C. A. PATRIDES 1968
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So that (if there be cause) they may as well and safely then purge, as at any other time: Or, if occasion shall urge, as in plethoricall bodies, and many other cases, a veine may safely (or rather most commodiously) be then opened and so much blood taken away, as the skilfull Physitian shall thinke in his discretion and wisdome to be needfull and requisite.
Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain Edmund Deane
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