cruces
Americannoun
noun
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The comparative accuracy of this outline, so incredibly good as mere guesswork, must remain one of the chief cruces of Mediæval geography.
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Then after a page or two we come to the chief cruces of Moore's pathetic and of his comic manner, "The Last Rose of Summer," "The Young May Moon," and "The Minstrel Boy."
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This is one of the textual cruces of the play.
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The sterility of hybrids has been always considered one of the great cruces in connection with any theory of Evolution.
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Good wine and sound ale have their uses, To distinguish 'twixt which and abuses The clear-headed want; But illogical cant Will ne'er solve our worst social cruces.
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