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Semper paratus duly recorded
What would be his civic functions and social status among the county families and landed gentry? Arranged successively in ascending powers of hierarchical order, that of gardener, groundsman, cultivator, breeder, and at the zenith of his career, resident magistrate or justice of the peace with a family crest and coat of arms and appropriate classical motto (Semper paratus ), duly recorded in the court directory (Bloom, Leopold P., M. P., P. C., K. P., L. L. D. ( honoris causa ), Bloomville, Dundrum) and mentioned in court and fashionable intelligence (Mr and Mrs Leopold Bloom have left Kingstown for England).
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

studi pubblicati dalla R
The first three English books on America (Birmingham, 1885), from the third book, entitled The decades of the newe worlde , first printed in London in 1555; from Mosto, from Il primo viaggio, intorno al globo di Antonio Pigafetta , by Andrea da Mosto (Roma, 1894), which was published as a portion of part v of volume iii of Raccolta di documenti e studi pubblicati dalla R. Commissione Colombiana pel quarto centenario dalla scoperta dell’America , appearing under the auspices of the Minister of Public Instruction; and from Stanley, from his First voyage round the world, by Magellan (Hakluyt Society publications, London, 1874), which was translated by Lord Stanley in part from the longer French MS.
— 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

sanguine pauci Descendunt reges
Ad generum Cereris sine caede et sanguine pauci Descendunt reges et sicca morte tyranni.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

she plays Disclosing rock
Lands of the dark-eyed maid and dusky Moor, Alike beheld beneath pale Hecate's blaze: How softly on the Spanish shore she plays, Disclosing rock, and slope, and forest brown, Distinct, though darkening with her waning phase: But Mauritania's giant-shadows frown, From mountain-cliff to coast descending sombre down.
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

se pueden dar respuestas
Para algunas actividades de consultoría se pueden dar respuestas directas a los clientes/ perspectivas por medio de expertos en la materia, vía la
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

sinewy Proboscis did remisly
Himselfe he up-props, on himselfe relies, And foe to none, suspects no enemies, Still sleeping stood; vex't not his fantasie Blacke dreames; like an unbent bow, carelesly 390 His sinewy Proboscis did remisly lie: [pg 311] XL.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Seu Persei de rupibus
Seu Persei de rupibus Antri Indignata sequi torquentem cornua Mithran.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

St Philippe du Roule
Very different from either of these interiors is that of St. Philippe du Roule ; which presents you with a single insulated row of fluted Ionic pillars, on each side of the nave; very airy, yet impressive and imposing.
— from A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

surgeon probing deep Reform
To be of any use, reproof Still strong should be and home put, A lecture grave or saying wise The mind is quickly from put; Instead of gen'ral moral saws, Facts personal lay stress on, And like a surgeon probing deep, Reform is in the lesson.
— from Poems by William Anderson

singularly prophetic dream relative
Shifting now the scene to half a century later, we find in the “Diary and Letters of Sarah Pierpont,” wife of the celebrated theologian, Jonathan Edwards, this letter, describing a singularly prophetic dream relative to her grandson, then an infant, Aaron Burr:— “ Stockbridge , May 10, 1756.
— from The Myths and Fables of To-Day by Samuel Adams Drake

such pilgrimages do remit
The popular guide-books written for pilgrims to Rome and Compostella spread the popular idea that Indulgences acquired by such pilgrimages do remit guilt as well as penalty.
— from A History of the Reformation (Vol. 1 of 2) by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay

stout Pistoja dagger ready
And so, while my amiable and garrulous Ser Stefano engaged me in pleasant conversation—addressing me ever as Messer the Fool, since he knew me not by name—I wrapped my cloak about me, and under cover of it kept my fingers on the hilt of my stout Pistoja dagger, ready to draw and use it at the first sign of mischief.
— from The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro by Rafael Sabatini

So poor dear Rogers
"So, poor dear Rogers has stuck fast on 'the brow of the mighty Helvellyn'—I hope not for ever.
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

should place definite responsibilities
It should place definite responsibilities upon each member, either as officer or committee-man, for habits of Christian service must be solicitously nurtured during these days.
— from The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training by Antoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux


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