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sufrida por el canónigo la
La escena que había presenciado; la vejación sufrida por el canónigo; la inopinada aparición del doctorcillo, aumentaron 20 las confusiones, recelos y presentimientos desagradables que turbaban el alma del pobre ingeniero.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

sunt Pisces et carnes lautissimas
Quomodo antiquorum unus Græcorum dixit:—Delicatissimos esse Pisces quæ non sunt Pisces, et carnes lautissimas quæ non sunt carnes.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Sicheo poi e Cleopatras lussuriosa
e` colei che s'ancise amorosa, e ruppe fede al cener di Sicheo; poi e` Cleopatras lussuriosa.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

simplices Palma et coronis luditis
Vos prima Christi victima, Grex immolatorum tener, Aram sub ipsam simplices Palma et coronis luditis.
— from Hymni ecclesiae by John Henry Newman

son plaisir et centre la
that il ne laisse pas d'en ordonner à son plaisir, et centre la volonté des estats, comme on a vu Henry VIII.
— from Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 1 of 3 by Henry Hallam

ses propos et constance lui
Mais eux rudement fachés de ses propos et constance, lui donnèrent tant de coups, qu'ils le mirent tout en sang, jusques là que son sang jailissoit sur les murailles de la chapelle.
— from History of the Great Reformation, Volume 4 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

Salamanque pour en chasser les
Le duc de Dalmatie renverra promptement le 6 me corps sur Salamanque pour en chasser les ennemis, et couvrir la Vieille Castille conjointement avec le Général Kellermann.’
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 2, Jan.-Sep. 1809 From the Battle of Corunna to the End of the Talavera Campaign by Charles Oman

so perfectly embodied Cuban landscapes
No other has quite so richly and so perfectly embodied Cuban landscapes in verse.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 3 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

Some painters even Claude Lorraine
Some painters, even Claude Lorraine himself, have occasionally erred, from what may be called exuberance of design , in producing extreme effect, by introducing lights which never can be seen by day or night, at dawn or twilight; by trees which never existed, and by forms 49 which had only an imaginary existence.
— from The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts, July-December, 1827 by Various

se parte el Conde Llorando
Llorando se parte el Conde, Llorando, sin alegria, Llorando a la Condessa, Que mas que a sì la queria.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek


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