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Fernique Revue Arch XXXV
Fernique, Revue Arch., XXXV (1878), p. 240, notes 1, 2, and 3, comes to the best conclusions on this find.
— from A Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste by Ralph Van Deman Magoffin

Fernique Revue Arch XXXV
d. Scavi, 1877, p. 328; Fernique, Revue Arch., XXXV (1878), p. 233; Fronto, p. 157 (Naber).
— from A Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste by Ralph Van Deman Magoffin

furnished room at X
Carrie X 291 solicited a man to go to a furnished room at X 292 West 39th Street, A pickpocket stole a watch, a stickpin, and $9 in money from one of the men in the place.
— from Commercialized Prostitution in New York City by George J. (George Jackson) Kneeland

foresaid rules Acts xv
For which it maketh, that the apostles in their decree, allege no other ground for abstinence from blood and things strangled (which were in their nature indifferent), but the necessity of abstaining caused and induced by the foresaid rules, Acts xv.
— from The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie

Fox Reservation at xxxi
29 Tama, Iowa, Sauk and Fox Reservation at, xxxi , note Tamaroa Indians, (Tamorois) 17 Texas, southern and southeastern.
— from The Iowa by Foster, Thomas, of Washington, D.C.

found Revue Archéologique xxiii
One of the latter, which has recently been found ( Revue Archéologique , xxiii. 1872, p. 220), and is now in the public museum of Constantinople, is to this effect: μήθ' ἕνα ἀλλογενῆ εἰσπορεύεσθαι ἐντὸς τοῦ περὶ τὸ ἱερὸν τρυφάκτου καὶ περιβόλου.
— from The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 2 by Theodor Mommsen

forms recorded are Xenocalamus
—Of reptiles, the only peculiar forms recorded are Xenocalamus , a genus of snakes, belonging to the Calamariidæ; and Pythonodipsas , one of the Dipsadidæ, both from the Zambesi; and among lizards, Pisturus , one of the Geckotidæ, from Abyssinia.
— from The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 1 With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface by Alfred Russel Wallace

firmitudinem revocat An XV
So, instead of his "bosom," or "lap", for "hiding place," or "retreat," we find "tears" for "weeping persons," where Seneca endeavours to recall his distracted friends to composure by words of suasion or authority: "Simul lacrymas eorum modo sermone, modo intentior in modum coercentis, ad firmitudinem revocat" (An. XV. 62).
— from Tacitus and Bracciolini. The Annals Forged in the XVth Century by John Wilson Ross

familiar radium and X
If so, he is called a radiologist and is an expert in the use of radiation beams, injection of radioisotopes, and implantation of radioactivity into the body, as well as in the use of the more familiar radium and X-ray devices.
— from Careers in Atomic Energy by Loyce J. McIlhenny


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