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  • [5653] Mertila, in Aristaenetus, swore she would never love Pamphilus again, and did moderate her passion, so long as he was absent; but the next time he came in presence, she could not contain, effuse amplexa attrectari se sinit, &c., she broke her vow, and did profusely embrace him.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Non sinit conscientia tales homines recta verba proferre, aut rectis quenquam oculis aspicere, ab omni hominum coetu eosdem exterminat, et dormientes perterrefacit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The schoolmaster, who is now abroad, has taught us, in our youth, how the cultivation of art “emollit mores nec sinit esse” — (it is needless to finish the quotation); and

    The Paris Sketch Book 2006

  • Ovid attributes to learning -- "_Emollit mores nec sinit esse feros_."

    Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 Lt-Col. Pinkney

  • = Compare _EP_ II vii 69-70 'tempus in agrorum cultu consumere dulce est:/non patitur uerti barbarus hostis humum' and _EP_ III viii 6 'hostis ab agricola uix sinit illa [_sc_ loca] fodi'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • _Ibis_ 11-12 'ille relegatum gelidos _Aquilonis ad ortus_/non sinit exilio delituisse meo'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • [157] _Fortasse_ sinit _post_ duris _addendum est_.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Tunc aliud esset ipsa illa substantia, aliud eius rotunditas, aliud color, aliud bonitas; nam si haec singula idem essent quod ipsa substantia, idem esset grauitas quod color, quod bonum et bonum quod grauitas -- quod fieri natura non sinit.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Si scit, metuat necesse est, ne amittat quod amitti posse non dubitat; quare continuus timor non sinit esse felicem.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Junction is about f'r to revive th oratorical thraditions iv th 'sinit an' th 'fire department comes up f'r a week, an' wets down th 'capitol buildin'.

    Mr. Dooley's Philosophy Finley Peter Dunne 1901

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