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"Not unless sperm xan get through a sash window, no!"
Sheer genius Not a sheep 2008
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April 25th, 2008 11: 56 am ET xan dont be fooled by the media this guy is right about the clintons
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"Not unless sperm xan get through a sash window, no!"
Archive 2008-05-01 Not a sheep 2008
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I xan; t seem to find coverage of this on the BBC website.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Eg. are φ- : v- in "Velturies" or x- : k- in "xan" normal Rhaetic: Etruscan correspondences?
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T. Boone Pickens, the T.xan oil tycoon, turned wind energy magnet.
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December 31, 2007 at 10:33 pm xan sum2 leet i knew wot des toureal iz fur!
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I have had good luck sub-bing milled flax seed for xan gum in recipes.
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A red fire spluttered and blazed close by the electricians at their work, and red gleams xan up the vertical steel mast and threads of copper wire towards the zenith.
The War in the Air 1906
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For instance, chap. X, v. 1, "The Lord appointed other seventy also," where the Maya has _xan lahcatu cankal_, "seventy-two;" and again chap. XV, v. 4, the ninety-nine sheep are increased to _bolon lahu uaxackal_, one hundred and fifty-nine!
The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 Various 1868
elohiwarrior commented on the word xan
Short for Alexander or Xanthippe-Socrates Bitch. "Perhaps this picture of Xanthippe originated with the historical Antisthenes, one of Socrates' pupils, since Xenophon initially puts this view into his mouth. Aelian also depicts her as a jealous shrew in his description of an episode in which she tramples underfoot a large and beautiful cake sent to Socrates by his eromenos, Alcibiades.4 Diogenes Laertius (Lives 2.36-37) tells of other stories involving Xanthippe's supposed abusiveness, but he does not cite any source for them."
June 30, 2009