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Then came a messenger reporting that the Saxons were in rebellion; they had abandoned all their hostages, broken their oaths and induced the Franks at the castrum of Eresburg, by means of destructive siege-engines mala ingenia and fraudulent assurances, to evacuate this.
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Oraculum est, vivida saepe ingenia, luxuriare hac et evanescere multosque sensum penitus amisisse.
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Rama cupida aequandi bovem, se distendebat, &c. 1717. alit ingenia: Paterculus poster.
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Laet, and [3066] Acosta contend, there is tam mirabilis et inopinata varietas, such variety of weather, ut merito exerceat ingenia, that no philosophy can yet find out the true cause of it.
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Proferunt se nova ingenia et ostentant, we stretch our wits out, and set them to sale, magno conatu nihil agimus.
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Praeceptorum ineptiis discruciantur ingenia puerorum,
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If school divinity be so censured, subtilis [718] Scotus lima veritatis, Occam irrefragabilis, cujus ingenium vetera omnia ingenia subvertit, &c. Baconthrope, Dr. Resolutus, and
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Plebeia ingenia magis exemplis quam ratione capiuntur.
bard Diary Entry bard 2004
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Interiora velut sacri hujus adeuntibus apparebit multa rerum subtilitas, quae non modo acuere ingenia puerilia sed exercere altissimam quoque eruditionem ac scientiam possit.
The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord
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PINACOTHECÆ HISTORICÆ SPECIMEN; sive Illvstrivm qvorvundam ingenia, mores, fortvnæ, ad Inscriptionvm formam expressæ.
chained_bear commented on the word ingenia
"The name "Ingenia" is currently occupied by that of a nematode, Ingenia mirabilis Gerlach, 1957, neccesitating a replacement name, as mandated by the International Commision on Zoological Nomenclature." (Wikipedia)
An oviraptor found in Mongolia.
September 4, 2008