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  • Cithar鎑i, et qui testudine ludunt, apud eos reperiuntur qu鄊 plurimi, qui pr鎑ulci modulamine et volucres et pisces irretiant et capiant.

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

  • Citharædi, et qui testudine ludunt, apud eos reperiuntur quàm plurimi, qui prædulci modulamine et volucres et pisces irretiant et capiant.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • _BG_ VII 85 'alii tela coniciunt, alii testudine facta _subeunt_' and

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Ligus egerat, cognovit, quamquam toto die intentos proelio Numidas habuerat, tum vero cohortatus milites et ipse extra vineas egressus, testudine acta succedere et simul hostem tormentis sagittariisque et funditoribus eminus terrere.

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

  • AT chorus aequalis Dryadum clamore supremos implerunt montis; flerunt Rhodopeiae arces altaque Pangaea et Rhesi Mauortia tellus atque Getae atque Hebrus et Actias Orithyia. ipse caua solans aegrum testudine amorem5 te, dulcis coniunx, te solo in litore secum, te ueniente die, te decedente canebat.

    Orpheus and Eurydice Vergil 1912

  • A tibi quanta domus rutila testudine fulgens, conexusque ebori uirgarum argenteus ordo, argutumque tuo stridentia limina cornu! heu querulae iam sponte fores! uacat ille beatus carcer, et angusti nusquam conuicia tecti!

    On the Death of a Favourite Parrot 1912

  • Great was our astonishment when he answered clearly and audibly in the Roman military phrase -- 'Yes, _testudine et facie; _' and immediately after added, 'Ready for the enemy, and in battle array.'

    Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • Great was our astonishment when he answered clearly and audibly in the Roman military phrase -- 'Yes, _testudine et facie; _' and immediately after added, 'Ready for the enemy, and in battle array.'

    Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • Citharædi, et qui testudine ludunt, apud eos reperiuntur quàm plurimi, qui prædulci modulamine et volucres et pisces irretiant et capiant.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • Punjab's Harike wetlands, which came into being with the construction of a barrage in 1952 on the Sutlej river, supports rare and endangered fauna species, including the testudine turtle and the smooth Indian otter.

    India eNews 2009

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