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Caput eminet undis Scindentis pelagusque
Caput eminet undis Scindentis pelagusque movet.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

celibacy enforced under severe penalties
New canons were promulgated and celibacy enforced under severe penalties, or rather marriage was prohibited under severe penalties.
— from Woman, Church & State The Original Exposé of Male Collaboration Against the Female Sex by Matilda Joslyn Gage

City excavations under St Peter
13.8 Vatican City, excavations under St. Peter’s, Mausoleum F, stuccoes.
— from The Mute Stones Speak: The Story of Archaeology in Italy by Paul Lachlan MacKendrick

City excavations under St Peter
13.9 Vatican City, excavations under St. Peter’s, Campo P. (Toynbee and Ward Perkins, op.
— from The Mute Stones Speak: The Story of Archaeology in Italy by Paul Lachlan MacKendrick

can enter upon such pleasant
But, asking pardon for this fancy, I need not scruple to say, that those verses must indeed be ill-fated which can enter upon such pleasant walks of nature, without receiving and giving inspiration.
— from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 6 (of 8) by William Wordsworth

ciénagos extensos un sendero por
Él sabe el vado oculto que tiene un río, más arriba o más abajo del paso ordinario, y esto en cien ríos o arroyos; él conoce en los ciénagos extensos un sendero por donde pueden ser atravesados sin inconveniente, y esto en cien ciénagos distintos.
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

City excavations under St Peter
Faliscus 12.3 307 Faliscan roads of the ager Faliscus 12.4 311 Rome, Baths of Caracalla, air view 12.5 311 Rome, Baths of Caracalla, great hall, reconstruction 12.6 315 New York, Pennsylvania Station, McKim plan 12.7 315 New York, Pennsylvania Station, waiting room, before “modernization” 12.8 316 Rome and environs, map showing aqueducts 12.9 318 Aqueducts near Capannelle, reconstruction (painting) 12.10 322 Rome, Aurelian’s Wall, from south 12.11 323 Rome, Aurelian’s Wall, plan, with major Imperial monuments 13.1 328 Piazza Armerina, Imperial Villa, “Bikini girls” mosaic 13.2 330–1 Piazza Armerina, Imperial Villa, reconstruction 13.3 334 Piazza Armerina, Imperial Villa, Circus Maximus, mosaic 13.4 334 Piazza Armerina, Imperial Villa, small hunting scene, mosaic 13.5 338 Piazza Armerina, Imperial Villa, large hunting scene, mosaic 13.6 338 Piazza Armerina, Imperial Villa, Labors of Hercules mosaic, detail 13.7 343 Vatican City, excavations under St. Peter’s, west end, plan 13.8 343 Vatican City, excavations under St. Peter’s, Mausoleum F, stuccoes 13.9 346 Vatican City, excavations under St. Peter’s, Campo P, plan 13.10 348 Vatican City, excavations under St. Peter’s, Aedicula, reconstruction 1 1 Prehistoric Italy
— from The Mute Stones Speak: The Story of Archaeology in Italy by Paul Lachlan MacKendrick

charitable exertions upon several public
We are very sensible of the obligation we are under for your uniformly benevolent and charitable exertions upon several public occasions, and we feel peculiar pleasure in thus tendering to you individually our gratitude and thanks.
— from Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1 by George Otto Trevelyan

complained except under sore pressure
As Bob was a boy who never complained except under sore pressure, the boys perceived that he was now in need of quiet and repose, and therefore tried to put a check upon their eager curiosity.
— from Among the Brigands by James De Mille


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