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plus en plus régulièrement sans
Il reste que, par la grâce de Dieu, de plus en plus de consultants arrivent sur ce site, et que des commandes me sont adressées de plus en plus régulièrement, sans que nous les ayons cherchées, puisque le site a été créé en priorité pour rendre service aux chercheurs, et secondairement pour faire de la publicité pour la maison et renouveler son image… Mais j'ai constaté, et beaucoup de personnes m'ont confirmé, que les sites de service pouvaient se révéler rentables, parfois plus facilement et plus rapidement que les sites commerciaux: l'exemple le plus connu est fourni par les sites de recherche sur internet.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Paradis en plaidant Return Scarronides
Return See Méon’s Barbazan, 1808, tome iv, p. 114; also Le Grand, 1781, tome ii, p. 190: “Du Vilain qui gagna Paradis en plaidant.” Return Scarronides; or, Virgil Travestie , etc., by Charles Cotton, Book iv.
— from Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers by W. A. (William Alexander) Clouston

petty Euskarian principalities rude supremacies
If so, there may have been petty Euskarian principalities, rude supremacies or chieftainships like those of South Africa, in the Chichester lowlands, in the dale of Arun, in the valleys of the Adur, the Ouse, and the Cuckmere River, and perhaps, too, in the insulated Hastings region, between the Pevensey levels and the Romney marsh.
— from Science in Arcady by Grant Allen

plan energetically prosecute respective sacred
Address plea particularly to convenors above mentioned conferences to arise within short time at their disposal, prayerfully consider, carefully plan, energetically prosecute, respective sacred delegated tasks, take immediate preliminary steps issue invitations, fix procedure, provide smooth working, accord wide publicity, insure resounding success, epoch-making conferences immortalizing Centenary of memorable Year, anticipated by St. John the Divine, foreshadowed by Sh ay kh Aḥmad, eulogized by the Báb, extolled by both Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, and constituting prelude to Most Great Jubilee, which will alike commemorate Centenary formal assumption by Author of Bahá’í Revelation of His Prophetic Office, and mark, God willing, worldwide
— from Messages to the Bahá'í World: 1950–1957 by Effendi Shoghi

pronto et potente rimedio se
Non può ne deue sua Beatitudine mancare di tutti quei Uffity, che si appartengono al grado suo per aprire la mente del Rè con modo, che sia cauato dalle tenebre, oue altri cerca di tenerlo, et sia illuminato delle prouisioni, che Sua M ta può porgere per la salute, et conseruatione dello Stato, et uita di tutti i buoni, che senza pronto, et potente rimedio se ne andranno in perditione, non potendo mai reggersi quel Regno senza buona giustistia, et religione; le quali sono corrottissime con l’Intervento delli Heretici in esse, li quali Heretici non accade dubitare, che hanno sempre hauuta, et hanno tutavia più che mai la principale mira loro fissa alla rouina del Rè et uaglionsi apparentemente di quelle due cose, che sono generalissime per chiunque cerca di distruggere un Dominio, ò una Monarchia, cioè la prima di mettere in diffidenza à chi lo regge quei Prencipi massimamente, che lo possono sostenere, et porgere consigli; et aiuti da conseruarsi il suo debito imperiò, come si sà, che hanno tanto tempo procurato di conseguire più, et sopra ogni altra cosa li Ugonotti del Rè di
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson

Potus et Patera rectiones sunt
[186] "Greges et Vellera, Fruges et honea, Porri et Olera, Potus et Patera rectiones sunt hodie et studio monachorum.
— from Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by F. Somner (Frederick Somner) Merryweather

phrases each phrase repeated several
The song consists entirely of short staccato phrases, each phrase repeated several times, perhaps twice, possibly five or six times.
— from In Nesting Time by Olive Thorne Miller

pale ex plore re spire
be rate' a bode' ex pire' a cute' a pace' a lone' con fide' a buse' re bate' a tone' con fine' con fuse' de bate' af ford' con spire' de duce' de face' ca jole' po lite' de lude' de fame' de pose' re cline' ma ture' se date' com pose' re fine' pol lute' col late' en force' re pine' pro cure' re gale' en robe' re quire' re buke' em pale' ex plore' re spire' re duce' en gage' ex pose' u nite' se clude' en rage' im port' en twine' se cure' Lesson 20.
— from McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book by Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton) McGuffey

propriis et paternis rebus solummodo
[30] "Quis clericorum propriis et paternis rebus solummodo non studebat?
— from Freaks of Fanaticism, and Other Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould


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