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et caetera et caetera
It may be an acutely conscious mouse, yet it is a mouse, while the other is a man, and therefore, et caetera, et caetera.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

expiâre cupiêbat et cônstituit
ad sânitâtem reductus tantum scelus expiâre cupiêbat et cônstituit ad ôrâculum Delphicum iter facere.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

el Casino en casa
—Sí; lo he oído en el Casino, en casa de D. Lore
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

eram cēp erās cēp
capt us, -a, -um sum, es, est , etc. PLUPERFECT cēp eram , cēp erās , cēp erat , etc. capt us, -a, -um eram, erās, erat , etc. FUTURE PERFECT cēp erō , cēp eris , cēp erit , etc. capt us, -a, -um erō, eris, erit , etc.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

est conscient et complice
Le jeune homme qui se fait dépouiller en est conscient, et complice.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

esta causa el consumo
Animal largo tiempo desdeñado, no se ha levantado aún a los ojos de los criollos del largo abandono en que vegetaba hace aún un cuarto de siglo; por el contrario es muy buscado de [5] los extranjeros y por esta causa el consumo aumenta extraordinariamente.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

efforts could ever create
thinkest Thou that all the world's sages, all the legislators, initiates, philosophers and thinkers, if called upon to frame three questions which should, like these, besides answering the magnitude of the event, express in three short sentences the whole future history of this our world and of mankind—dost Thou believe, I ask Thee, that all their combined efforts could ever create anything equal in power and depth of thought to the three propositions offered Thee by the powerful and all-wise spirit in the wilderness?
— from The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

externa cum externis comparari
[261] et ipsa inter se corporis et externa cum externis comparari solent.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Enter CLEOPATRA ENOBARBUS CHARMIAN
CLEOPATRA'S palace Enter CLEOPATRA, ENOBARBUS, CHARMIAN, and IRAS CLE
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

eam cogitationem esse conando
, cuius levamen mali plebes nisi suis in summo imperio locatis, nullum speraret: accingendum ad eam cogitationem esse; conando agendoque iam eo gradum fecisse plebeios, unde, 5 si porro annitantur
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

et careo et curo
This was satirised by John Taylor, the Water-Poet, in the words “et habeo, et careo, et curo,” and is obviously alluded to in Jonson’s Masque, where “ Nose ” says “The gentleman-like Satyre cares for nobody.”
— from Baconian Essays by Smithson, E. W. (Edward Walter), active 19th century

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— from Sequential Problem Solving A Student Handbook with Checklists for Successful Critical Thinking by Fredric B. Lozo

est concessa et conditionata
Hec est concessa et conditionata quod replicet in scholis post responsionem.’
— from The Grey Friars in Oxford by A. G. (Andrew George) Little

Eleyson Christe Eleyson c
[Pg 269] (Gloria Patri, Kyrie Eleyson, Christe Eleyson, &c. &c.) were sung, and prayers were offered up, and then the ceremony was concluded.
— from The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by C. G. (Charles Greenstreet) Addison

et cetera et cetera
I have the honor, your excellency, to be, et cetera, et cetera.
— from He Walked Around the Horses by H. Beam Piper

environmental control equipment clear
The cockpit was an oven, overwhelming its environmental control equipment, clear evidence vehicle skin temperature had exceeded design.
— from Project Daedalus by Thomas Hoover


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