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présentiel versus distant et
Ce nouveau média modifie les contraintes liées à l'espace (présentiel versus distant) et au temps (synchrone versus asynchrone).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

psychischer Vorgünge durch einige
[309] Ueber die Beeinflüssung einfacher psychischer Vorgünge durch einige Arzeneimittel (p. 224).
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Pudentillam viduam ditem et
quod Pudentillam viduam ditem et provectioris aetatis foeminam cantaminibus in amorem sui pellexisset.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

pertinentem vī dīvīnā esse
Often in translations from Greek: as, aliīs librīs ratiōnem quandam per omnem nātūram rērum pertinentem vī dīvīnā esse adfectam putat , DN. 1, 36, in other works he supposes ‘a kind of Reason pervading all nature and endowed with divine power , of Zeno’s doctrine.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

prius viros decipiant et
Who will pity them, saith Neander, or be much offended with such wives, si deceptae prius viros decipiant, et cornutos reddant , if they deceive those that cozened them first.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Petites Voitures des Environs
Towards the middle of the day, after having, from time to time, for the sake of resting herself, travelled, for three or four sous a league, in what was then known as the Petites Voitures des Environs de Paris , the “little suburban coach service,” Fantine found herself at Montfermeil, in the alley Boulanger.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

principe vene doue eramo
gengero ꝓ alora colto et vino eL figliolo magiore deL re chera iL principe vene doue eramo il
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

perturbatos verbo Dei erexit
[408] Eorum animos fractos et perturbatos verbo Dei erexit.
— from History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Volume 3 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

por vengarse de ellos
á los que son buenos porque no siguen sus malos costumbres y obras: diz que por sus delitos son presos y los confiesan; los primeros que acusan son los que saben que biben bien, por vengarse de ellos, y á estos les da lugar el secreto, que si publico
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea

Ponz Viage de España
[262] Spain boasts other like treasures, e.g. —a figure still preserved at Mondoñedo, and which is still called “la Yuglesa,” because brought from St. Paul’s.—See Ponz, Viage de España, vol.
— from Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street

perilous virtues disinterested enterprises
The incentives which animate 353 men to strenuous services, perilous virtues, disinterested enterprises, spiritual culture, would cease to operate.
— from The state of the dead and the destiny of the wicked by Uriah Smith

poison vice devours every
We can therefore again be wholly certain of not overstating the truth, if we assert that in the United States alone the poison vice devours every year the aggregate earnings of more than fourteen hundred thousand families .
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, January 1885, No. 4 by Chautauqua Institution

produced very deplorable effects
It is very certain my beauty has produced very deplorable effects: the unhappy Hervey has expiated, by his death, the violence his too-desperate passion forced him to meditate against me: the no less guilty, the noble unknown Edward, is wandering about the world, in a tormenting despair; and stands exposed to the vengeance of my cousin, who has vowed his death.
— from The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella, v. 1-2 by Charlotte Lennox

pallida vitam Ducit et
Over the picture of this maid, set in front of the Dutch copy, stand these Latin verses: "Meursæ hæc quam cernis decies ter, sexque peregit, Annos, bis septem prorsus non viscitur annis Nec potat, sic sola sedet, sic pallida vitam Ducit, et exigui se oblectat floribus horti."
— from Fasting Girls: Their Physiology and Pathology by William A. (William Alexander) Hammond

propter voluntatem dimittentis et
alienus best MSS.) recuperare non poterunt ut liberum tenementum, cum sit villenagium et cadit assisa, vertitur tamen in juratam ad inquirendum de conventione propter voluntatem dimittentis et consensum, quia si quaerentes in tali casu recuperarint villenagium, non erit propter hoc domino injuriatum propter ipsius voluntatem et consensum, et contra voluntatem suam jura ei non subveniunt, quia si dominus potest villanum manumittere et feoffare multo fortius poterit ei quandam conventionem facere , et quia si potest id quod plus est, potest multo fortius id quod minus est.'
— from Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff


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