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cum praetor esset collegiumque
80 Ne noster quidem Gratidianus officio viri boni functus est tum, cum praetor esset collegiumque praetorium tribuni plebi adhibuissent, ut res nummaria de communi sententia constitueretur; iactabatur enim temporibus illis nummus sic, ut nemo posset scire, quid haberet.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Caesar per explorātores cognōvit
5. Caesar per explorātores cognōvit Gallōs flūmen trānsīsse.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

circus panem et circenses
The daily life of the Roman people may be summed up as consisting of taking their food and enjoying games in the circus ( panem et circenses ).
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Cambridge Poets Edition containing
Texts: Works, Cambridge Poets Edition (containing Henley's Study of Burns), Globe and Aldine editions, Clarendon Press, Canterbury Poets, etc.; Selections, in Athenaeum Press, etc.; Letters, in Camelot Series.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Clear pleasant evening Camped
the S. S. I Saw a white brant in a gangue on the Sand bar Saw a large herd of Cabra or antelopes Swiming the River, we Killed four of them passed a Small Island on the L. S. a large Creek on the L. S. at the head of the Island White Brant Creek, I walked on the Island which is covered with wild rye, I Killed a Buck & a Small wolf this evening, Clear pleasant evening, Camped on a mud bar S. S. refreshd the men with whiskey.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

cucumber pumpkin etc cuello
cucurbitáceo (like a) gourd, cucumber, pumpkin, etc. cuello neck.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

CENTELLAS Pues el capitán
CENTELLAS Pues el capitán Centellas Well, captain Centellas pone por don Juan Tenorio bets everything he has cuanto tiene.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

constitute perfect excellence CHAP
Tsze-lu kept continually repeating these words of the ode, when the Master said, 'Those things are by no means sufficient to constitute (perfect) excellence.' CHAP.
— from The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by Confucius

CONTENTS Preface EXPANDED CONTENTS
CONTENTS Preface EXPANDED CONTENTS PRAGMATISM Lecture I. — The Present Dilemma in
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

C Pedro Estrado Co
[Pg 340] Among the best known Medellin marks are FAC & H (F.A. Correa & Sons): PEC & C (Pedro Estrado Co.); LMT & C (Louis M. Torro & Co.); A & C (A. Angel & Co.); E C S Medellin Excelso (Eppens, Smith Co.); Balzacbro Medellin Excelso (Balzac Bros.); La Rambla (Banco Lopez); and Don Carlos Medellin Excelso (Steinwender, Stoffregen & Co.).
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

CONSERVED Past Experience Conserved
PAST EXPERIENCE IS CONSERVED Past Experience Conserved in Both Mental and Physical Terms.
— from The Mind and Its Education by George Herbert Betts

celebrated President Edwards considered
The celebrated President Edwards considered the proportion within the limits of his observation as at least two to one.
— from Model Women by William Anderson

connaître personnellement et cependant
que vous me pardonnerez, Monsieur, de profiter de cette circonstance pour vous faire parvenir l’expression de mon respect; je n’ai pas l’honneur de vous connaître personnellement, et cependant j’éprouve pour votre personne un sentiment de sincère vénération, car en jugeant un père de famille par ses enfants on ne risque pas de se tromper, et sous ce rapport l’éducation et les sentiments que nous avons trouvés dans mesdemoiselles vos filles n’ont pu que nous donner une très-haute idée de votre mérite et de votre caractère.
— from The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

cauallero para el cargo
su mano ordenado era tam obedecido y amado que nadie saliera de su mandado despues que todos entẽdieron quien era su general hiço alferez general a don pedro de touar cauallero mançebo hijo de don fernando de tobar guarda y mayordomo mayor de la reyna doña Juana n a natural señora que sea en gloria y maestre de campo a lope de samaniego alcayde de las ataraçanas de mexico cauallero para el cargo bien sufiçiente capitanes fueron don tristan de arellano don pedro de gueuara hijo de don juan de gueuara y sobrino del conde de oñate don garçi lopes de cardenas don rodrigo maldonado cuñado del duque del infantado diego lopes ueinte y quatro de seuilla diego gutierres de la caualleria todos los demas caualleros yban debajo del guion del general por ser peronas señaladas y algunos de ellos fueron despues capitanes y permanecieron en ello por ordenaçion del birey y otros por el general francisco uasques nombrare algunos de aquellos de que tengo memoria que fueron françisco de barrio nuebo un cauallero de granada juan de saldibar françisco de auando juan gallego y melchior dias capitan y
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

CHEMISTRY POETICAL EFFUSIONS CITATIONS
FORTY CENTURIES OF INK OR A CHRONOLOGICAL NARRATIVE CONCERNING INK AND ITS BACKGROUNDS INTRODUCING INCIDENTAL OBSERVATIONS AND DEDUCTIONS, PARALLELS OF TIME AND COLOR PHENOMENA, BIBLIOGRAPHY, CHEMISTRY, POETICAL EFFUSIONS, CITATIONS, ANECDOTES AND CURIOSA TOGETHER WITH SOME EVIDENCE RESPECTING THE EVANESCENT CHARACTER OF MOST INKS OF TO-DAY AND AN EPITOME OF CHEMICO-LEGAL INK.
— from Forty Centuries of Ink Or, A chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink. by David Nunes Carvalho

Cajetanus peccata enim contra
Coitus igitur cum Dæmone, sive Incubo, sive Succubo (qui proprie est Dæmonialitas, specie differt a Bestialitate, nec cum ea facit unam speciem specialissimam, ut opinatus est Cajetanus: peccata enim contra naturam specie inter se distingui contra opinionem nonnullorum Antiquorum, et Caramuelis, Summ., Armill., v. Luxur., n. 5., Jabien., eo.
— from Demoniality; or, Incubi and Succubi by Ludovico Maria Sinistrari

clear plain evident certain
Indubitable, incontestable, clear, plain, evident, certain, positive, absolute, unambiguous, unmistakable, not equivocal.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule


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