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  • Quisquis huic malo obnoxius est, acriter obsistat, et summa cura obluctetur, nec ullo modo foveat imaginationes tacite obrepentes animo, blandas ab initio et amabiles, sed quae adeo convalescunt, ut nulla ratione excuti queant.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Deinde etiam pugnat acriter cum Religione Christiana, quo

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Deinde etiam pugnat acriter cum Religione Christiana, quo

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Cumque alij longam quadragesim� inediam recentibus cibis compensantes, acriter comederent, ille a terrenis reuocato animo, diuinum quiddam speculatus, mentes conuiuantium permouit ampliorem perfusus in risum: nulloque causam l鎡iti� perquirere pr鎠umente, tunc quidem ita tacitum donec edendi satietas obsonijs finem imposuit.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • * An pro tempore illa bona erant, flendo petere etiam quod noxie daretur; indignari acriter non subjectis hominibus, liberis et majoribus, hisque a quibus genitus est; multisque praeterea prudentioribus, non ad nutum voluntatis obtemperantibus, feriendo nocere niti, quantum potest, quia non obeditur imperiis quibus perniciose obediretur?

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Igitur Calpurnius initio, paratis commeatibus, acriter Numidiam ingressus est, multosque mortales et urbes aliquot pugnando cepit.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Veterani, pristinae virtutis memores, comminus acriter instare; illi haud timidi resistunt; maxima vi certatur.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • BY W. W.RDE FOW.ER, M.A. 'Ad illa mihi pro se quisque acriter intendat animum, quae vita, quae mores fuerint.'

    Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884

  • The civil law gave the husband the same, or a larger authority over his wife, allowing him, for some misdemeanors, _flagellis et Fustibus acriter verberare uxorem_ (to beat his wife severely with whips and cudgels); for others only _modicam castigationem adhibere_ (to administer moderate chastisement).

    History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Matilda Joslyn Gage 1863

  • He acted quite differently from our modern magnetisers, for he never sought to place himself in sympathetic relation with her by passes or touches; on the contrary, he drew his sword, and placing himself beside the bed, began tittering the most harsh and cruel words he could think of in the Armenian tongue _ (acriter conviciatus est) _.

    Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 Wilhelm Meinhold 1824

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