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in part varies
[578] Also, Professor Freud discovered from his analysis of thousands of dreams that the subconsciousness makes use of a sort of symbolism:—‘This symbolism in part varies with the individual, but in part is of a typical nature, and seems to be identical with the symbolism which we suppose to lie behind our myths and legends.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

ista popîna vêndat
Timeô ut 3 ista popîna vêndat crûstula."
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

interpolates prout veteres
It gives No. 4, the Heaven, practically as in this edition, but puts another cut under it in which the earth is revolving about the sun; and after the statement of Comenius, “ Coelum rotatur, et ambit terram, in medio stantem ” interpolates: “ prout veteres crediderunt; recentiores enim defendunt motum terrae circa solem ”
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

Invisum pueris virginibusque
F. Quid tibi nobiscum est, ludi scelerate magister, Invisum pueris virginibusque caput?
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

in planting vineyards
Then we travelled all the country over, which now was desert, and dwelt there afterwards without fear of enemies, spending the time in exercise of the body and in hunting, in planting vineyards and gathering fruit of the trees, like such men as live delicately and have the world at will, in a spacious and unavoidable prison.
— from Lucian's True History by of Samosata Lucian

individual public vices
In this case, as all particular interests unite against the general interest, which is no longer that of any individual, public vices have a greater effect in enervating the laws than the laws in the repression of such vices: so that the corruption of the people and of their rulers will at length extend to the government, however wise it may be.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

it possesses value
When pupils are genuinely concerned in learning Latin, that is of itself proof that it possesses value.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

if possible vanquish
On the contrary, he must attack and fall upon them with a gallant bearing and a fearless heart, and, if possible, vanquish and destroy them, even though they have for armour the shells of a certain fish, that they say are harder than diamonds, and in place of swords wield trenchant blades of Damascus steel, or clubs studded with spikes also of steel, such as I have more than once seen.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

its position very
The tubular structure which succeeded the trestle-work bridge did not retain its position very long.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

in Panegyr Vet
[ Eumenius in Panegyr Vet. viii.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

In Plate VIII
In Plate VIII .
— from The Spanish Armada, 1588 The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords Representing the Several Engagements Between the English and Spanish Fleets. by John Pine

In purple velvet
Where waits Petruchio , and will he come In purple velvet, or in soldier steel, Or simple, civic, hero-covering cloth, To tame this Katharine of the Phrygian cap, And smiling, in the mocking calm of power, Say of the shrew, like him of Padua:— " Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 108, January 26, 1895 by Various

it Piet Van
At this point, for the first time since leaving it, Piet Van Dorn caught sight of the timbered belt, to comprehend why he had not sooner sighted it.
— from The Vee-Boers: A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa by Mayne Reid

its prosperity Very
He will be very anxious indeed for the mine to prove the great success he has always believed it to be, even though, at present, he does not know he is to have any pecuniary interest in its prosperity.' 'Very well then, I shall bid you good
— from A Woman Intervenes by Robert Barr

I Plundering Visigoths
One reads about the kings of France who resided here, from Louis IX to François I. Plundering Visigoths, ravaging Normans, Catholics and Huguenots, even the Germans in 1870, all in their turn assailed the unfortunate city.
— from Europe from a Motor Car by Russell Richardson

is poison vnto
Also a fish that is poison vnto man, and man vnto him.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

its prime virtue
In a certain way it is greater than any of these except the first; but its chief virtue, or its prime virtue, is in its address to the conscience, and not its address to the taste; to the ethical sense, not the aesthetical sense.
— from Literary Boston as I Knew It (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) by William Dean Howells

in part verified
By Professor Carus , of Dresden, 2 the views of D’Arpentigny have been in part verified, and at the same time considerably extended.
— from The Hand Phrenologically Considered Being a Glimpse at the Relation of the Mind with the Organisation of the Body by Anonymous

in Plutarchi Varia
(The original is to be found also in Plutarchi Varia Scripta ,
— from Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

IPSA PRAEFECTVRA VRBI
IVN BASSVS · V · C · QVI VIXIT ANNIS · XLII MEN · II IN IPSA PRAEFECTVRA VRBI NEOFITVS IIT AD DEVM —“Junius Bassus, a most distinguished man, who lived forty-two years, two months.
— from The Catacombs of Rome, and Their Testimony Relative to Primitive Christianity by W. H. (William Henry) Withrow


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