mure

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From Time Magazine Archive

Catus cum mure, duo galli simul in aede, Et glotes binae nunquam vivunt sine lite.

From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton, Robert

And he had let mure all the mountain about with a strong wall and a fair. 

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

It is no mure wonderful that I should live again than that I do live.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green

Next we drove to San Paolo fuori le mure, of the burning of which Thorwaldsen's Museum possesses a painting by Leopold Robert, but which at that time had been entirely re-built in the antique style.

From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen