Ex auctoritate Dei omnipotentis, Patris, et Filij, et Spiritus Sancti, et sanctorum canonum, sanctaeque et entemeratae Virginis Dei genetricis Mariae,— —Atque omnium coelestium virtutum, angelorum, archangelorum, thronorum, dominationum, potestatuum, cherubin ac seraphin, & sanctorum patriarchum, prophetarum, & omnium apolstolorum & evangelistarum, & sanctorum innocentum, qui in conspectu Agni soli digni inventi sunt canticum cantare novum, et sanctorum martyrum et sanctorum confessorum, et sanctarum virginum, atque omnium simul sanctorum et electorum Dei,—Excommunicamus, et vel os s vel os anathematizamus hunc furem, vel hunc Os malefactorem, N.N. et a liminibus sanctae — from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
fair Each shining street each steeple
[32] INTIMATION Here where the sunlight makes more strangely fair Each shining street, each steeple where it stands, Something like Spring is blowing down the air, Touching the Town with light, transforming hands. — from Ships in Harbour by David Morton
Filij et Spiritus Sancti et sanctorum
Ex auctoritate Dei omnipotentis, Patris, et Filij, et Spiritus Sancti, et sanctorum canonum, sanctæque et intemeratæ Virginis Dei genetricis Mariæ,— “ By the authority of God Almighty, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and of the holy canons, and of the undefiled Virgin Mary , mother and patroness of our Saviour.” — from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
four Eglise Saint Suplice Eglise Saint
=>fruits rafraîchis which is fourty -four=>which is forty-four Eglise Saint- Suplice =>Eglise Saint-Sulpice You make a list of the woman =>You make a list of the women I have known in them in their homes=>I have known them in their homes pièce de resistance =>pièce de résistance What a charming dining-room? — from Paris Vistas by Helen Davenport Gibbons
For example several shells exploded suddenly
For example, several shells exploded suddenly in the middle of the night in the harbor of Galveston when not a warship had been observed in the neighborhood, and again several American merchant-vessels were sent to the bottom by the mysterious ships, which began constantly to assume more gigantic proportions in the reports of the sailors. — from Banzai! by Parabellum by Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff
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