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pride resentment embarrassment chased each
Gratified pride, resentment, embarrassment, chased each other over his broad and open brow, like the shadow of clouds drifting over a harvest-field; while his attendants, on whom the name of the sixth knight seemed to produce an effect almost electrical, hung in suspense upon their master's looks.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

patriae Rōmānōrum et clāra est
Magna est Italiae fāma, patriae Rōmānōrum, et clāra est Rōma, domina orbis terrārum.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

patriae Rômânôrum et clâra est
Magna est Italiae fâma, patriae Rômânôrum, et clâra est Rôma, domina orbis terrârum.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Piper Royal Engineer Consulting Engineer
Capt. Robert S. Piper, Royal Engineer, Consulting Engineer, 1830. John Cliff, C E., Superintendent of Works and Draughtsman, 1830 to 1845.
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 2. Under British Rule, 1760-1914 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

pro remedio efficaci compertum est
In casibus rebellibus pro remedio efficaci compertum est dare quotidie calomelanos granum unum vel grana duo.
— from Observations on the Diseases of Seamen by Blane, Gilbert, Sir

peering round every corner every
The frequent windings of the narrow gully, the patches of vegetation, the boulders that stood up here and there, rendered detection from below unlikely; but Tom moved very warily, peering round every corner, every bush and rock, listening for voices or footsteps.
— from Tom Willoughby's Scouts: A Story of the War in German East Africa by Herbert Strang

per riparar e costizar el
[196] "E la nocte sequente ne a fazo un temporal de garbin cum vento fortevole, diche per non tornar in driedo tegnessemo la volta di ponente e maistro salvo el vero per riparar e costizar el tempo doe nocte e III zorni."
— from The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea. Vol. II by Gomes Eannes de Zurara

preces rationabiles et contra eorum
Veruntamen sciendum est quòd nullius hominis personaliter ab ipso quidquam petentis consueuit repellere preces rationabiles, et contra eorum leges aut mores non venientes.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Richard Hakluyt


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