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succurrere censuit umbrae Silius et
Silius optatae succurrere censuit umbrae, Silius et vatem, non minor ipse, colit.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

saddle commanding until so exhausted
But he was a man who would not abandon what he deemed an important trust in the face of danger and consequently continued in the saddle, commanding, until so exhausted by the loss of blood that he had to be taken from his horse, and soon after died.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Squids can use such extraordinary
Some of the creatures belonging to the Cuttles, and popularly called Squids, can use such extraordinary powers that they can project themselves far out of the water.
— from Nature's Teachings: Human Invention Anticipated by Nature by J. G. (John George) Wood

side crept up slowly emphasising
But the sun stole in and crossed the hard earthen floor, and stole up the wall on the other side, crept up slowly, emphasising the dull blankness of the place.
— from The Moving Finger by Mary Gaunt

sacri cultor uterque sumus EP
Similar references to shared poetic interests at viii 81 ' communia sacra tueri', EP II v 60 (to Salanus, a famous orator) 'seruat studii foedera quisque sui', EP II ix 63-64 (to Cotys, king of Thrace, who was a writer of verse) 'haec quoque res aliquid tecum mihi foederis adfert; / eiusdem sacri cultor uterque sumus', EP II x 17 'sunt tamen inter se communia sacra poetis', and EP III iv 67 'sunt mihi uobiscum communia sacra , poetae'.
— from The Last Poems of Ovid by Ovid

she came up sloe eyes
She flashed her teeth at him as she came up, sloe eyes flirting.
— from The Other Likeness by James H. Schmitz

she calls universal suffrage emptying
No loyalty for the sovereign, the king-post of the political edifice, she says; no deep attachment between employer and employed; no reverence of the humbler members of a household for its heads; and to make sure of continued corruption and misery, what she calls "universal suffrage" emptying all the sewers into the great aqueduct we all must drink from.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

salutifer Christus ut sublato erroris
Cui malesano opus erat salutifer Christus, ut sublato erroris grabato, viam Veritatis insequutus fuisset .
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

SISTER COMMUNITIES UNITED STATES EGYPT
SIGNALISING ASSOCIATION VICTORIOUS BRITISH BAHÁ’Í COMMUNITY WITH SISTER COMMUNITIES UNITED STATES EGYPT DESIGNED LAY STRUCTURAL BASIS BAHÁ’Í ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER SCALE COMPARABLE
— from The Unfolding Destiny of the British Bahá'í Community : the Messages from the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith to the Bahá'ís of the British Isles by Effendi Shoghi


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