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virginibus puerisque

[ wir-gin-i-boos poo-er-ees-kwe; English ver-jin-uh-buhs pyoo-uh-ris-kwee ]

Latin.
  1. for girls and boys.


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Example Sentences

It was with regret that I added my little 'Virginibus Puerisque' to the small pile of "rejects."

A basis in the classics, castor oil, even Stevenson's "Virginibus Puerisque" might have helped matters.

Virginibus Puerisque, his first book of essays, is crowded with happy hits and subtle implications conveyed in a single word.

This is the problem we have first to solve, and it may be said at once that this discourse does not apply virginibus puerisque.

As to some of his letters, they contained jests not gross, but not quite fit for grave seigniors not virginibus puerisque.

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