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  • Wylder coat in the centre, with the grinning griffins for supporters, and flaunting scrolls all round, and the ominous word 'resurgam' underneath, proclaimed itself sadly and vauntingly over the great entrance.

    Wylder's Hand Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843

  • "resurgam" you see there engraved round it, and by Jove! it did bring me up.

    Wylder's Hand Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843

  • Augustine wanted to counter claims that Rome had been weakened by adopting Christianity, but as our computer tournaments made clear, great empires are destined to decline and fall: it was more a case of delapsus resurgam—when I fall I shall rise—and vice versa.

    SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

  • Wylder; but the Wylder coat in the centre, with the grinning griffins for supporters, and flaunting scrolls all round, and the ominous word ‘resurgam’ underneath, proclaimed itself sadly and vauntingly over the great entrance.

    Wylder's Hand 2003

  • The Wylders of Brandon appear very early in history; and the Wylder arms, with their legend, ‘resurgam,’ stands in bold relief over the great door of Brandon Hall.

    Wylder's Hand 2003

  • So I got the “resurgam” you see there engraved round it, and by Jove! it did bring me up.

    Wylder's Hand 2003

  • I told you at Lucknow — resurgam — I shall rise again and you shall not know me.

    Kim 2003

  • I told you at Lucknow -- resurgam -- I shall rise again and you shall not know me.

    Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • I write resurgam on labels, and put them wherever bulbs lie buried, or such herbaceous treasures as die down, and are, in consequence, too often treated as mere mortal remains of the departed, by the undiscriminating hand of the jobbing gardener.

    Mary's Meadow; and Letters From a Little Garden 1886

  • S. Martin's little summers, and, like the amusing American I told you of, "turned away writing resurgam on the gate-post."

    Mary's Meadow; and Letters From a Little Garden 1886

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  • (Latin: "I shall rise again") is the name given to two early Victorian submarines designed and built in Britain by Reverend George Garrett as a weapon to penetrate the chain netting placed around ship hulls to defend against attack by torpedo vessels

    November 6, 2017