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sine
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  • Ten years ago, Jon Arryn had given him a minor sine-. cure in customs, where Lord Petyr had soon distinguished himself by bringing in three times as much as any of the king's other collectors.†   (source)
  • To a revolutionist, communications are a sine-qua-non.†   (source)
  • The JUDGE raps the gavel) I hereby declare this court is adjourned, sine die.†   (source)
  • The wives were arguing violently in sine curves, @kins and West were interlacing cross-conversation in a fascinatingly intricate pattern of sensory images that made Church's starvation keener.†   (source)
  • One sine-qua-non was help on Terra itself.†   (source)
  • I sometimes dreamed about sine, cosine and tangent, about mysterious angles and concussed computations, but for all this I made no real progress.†   (source)
  • As the teacher begins to repeat the verse-Hymn 189, it so happens, from the Standard Baptist HymnalCedric wordlessly gets up and moves to the blackboard, all reflex, it seems, and begins scribbling sine and cosine, X's and parentheses.†   (source)
  • "Quite sine pecunia," Herr Settembrini quoted as he stood up.†   (source)
  • It was almost a kind of consultation, but sine pecunia, you know.†   (source)
  • And that really was very nice of him to just go ahead and offer some advice, quite sine pecunia as he put it.†   (source)
  • An impression of this order, vanishing in an instant, is, so to speak, an impression sine materia.†   (source)
  • But if I might use this opportunity to give you some modest advice—quite sine pecunia, of course—as long as you're here with us, why don't you do just what your cousin does?†   (source)
  • He was forced to think of Director Behrens, of the advice he had given him sine pecunia to live the life of a patient and even keep track of his temperature—and of Settembrini, who had thrown back his head and laughed out loud at the advice and then quoted something from The Magic Flute.†   (source)
  • …now I want to thank you," he went on, shoving his glass of champagne and burgundy up against Herr Settembrini's coffee cup, as if to toast him there on the table, "to thank you for having been so kind as to look after me for the past seven months—a young donkey with all sorts of new experiences coming at me—for lending a helping hand in my exercises and experiments and trying to play a corrective role in my life, quite sine pecunia, sometimes with stories, sometimes more abstractly.†   (source)
  • Such a subject even the powerful Erictho was compelled to select, as alone capable of being reanimated even by "her" potent magic— ——gelidas leto scrutata medullas, Pulmonis rigidi stantes sine vulnere fibras Invenit, et vocem defuncto in corpore quaerit.†   (source)
  • Upon which the bishop had been constrained to recite to him the ordinance of Legate Odo, which excepts certain great dames, ~aliquoe magnates mulieres, quoe sine scandalo vitari non possunt~.†   (source)
  • As at the voice of Christ, ut voci Christi, at a gesture, at the first sign, ad nutum, ad primum signum, immediately, with cheerfulness, with perseverance, with a certain blind obedience, prompte, hilariter, perseveranter et caeca quadam obedientia, as the file in the hand of the workman, quasi limam in manibus fabri, without power to read or to write without express permission, legere vel scribere non addiscerit sine expressa superioris licentia.†   (source)
  • You know what Servius saith: '~Nullus enim locus sine genio est~,—for there is no place that hath not its spirit.'†   (source)
  • Then he began to sing, his eye swimming in ecstasy, in the tone of a canon intoning vespers, ~Quoe cantica! quoe organa! quoe cantilenoe! quoe meloclioe hic sine fine decantantur!†   (source)
  • Dr Strauss says that so far Algemon looks like he mite be smart permanint and he says thats a good sine becaus we both had the same kind of operashun.†   (source)
  • And when a man hath in either manner abandoned, or granted away his Right; then is he said to be OBLIGED, or BOUND, not to hinder those, to whom such Right is granted, or abandoned, from the benefit of it: and that he Ought, and it his DUTY, not to make voyd that voluntary act of his own: and that such hindrance is INJUSTICE, and INJURY, as being Sine Jure; the Right being before renounced, or transferred.†   (source)
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