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  • / There did I learn out of a grate, / For all favour, glory or might, / That yet circa regna tonat around the throne it thunders.

    The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt by Nicola Shulman - review 2011

  • [5324] Illa sibi vox ipsa Jovis violentior ira, cum tonat, &c. the voice of a mandrake had been sweeter music: but he to whom I gave entertainment, was in the Elysian fields, ravished for joy, quite beyond himself.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • I. Verbs denoting operations of the weather; as, -- fulget fulsit _it lightens_ tonat tonuit _it thunders_ grandinat ---- _it hails_ ningit ninxit _it snows_ pluit pluit _it rains_

    New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

  • Tarbigilus regione tonat; modo tendere cursum in Galatas, modo Bithynis incumbere fertur. sunt qui per Cilicas rupto descendere Tauro, sunt qui correptis ratibus terraque marique145 aduentare ferant; geminantur uera pauoris ingenio: longe spectari e puppibus urbis accensas, lucere fretum uentoque citatas omnibus in pelago uelis haerere fauillas.

    A Council of War-and War Claudian 1912

  • Iuppiter et caelo metuit dextramque corusca armatus flamma remouet caligine mundum. incursant uasto primum clamore gigantes: hic magno tonat ore pater geminantque fauentes undique discordes comitum simul agmine uenti.

    Poetry and Science Anonymous 1912

  • Therefore _si fortuna tonat_, _caveto mergi_ -- if fortune frowns, do not for that despond.

    Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

  • _Vapore_ sulphureo, quod erumpens è Nube cum _Fulgure_, 11. tonat & fulminat.

    The Orbis Pictus Johann Amos Comenius 1631

  • Eurique Zephyrique tonat domus, omnia plenis Rura natant foflis, atque omnis navita ponto Humida vela legit.

    P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796

  • Afrertor acer verit4tis In pr6cetes tonat, in« que plebem.,

    Diurnale Parisiense. Pars æstiva (hyemalis). 1787

  • IgnovifTe putas, quia cum tonat, ocius ilex Sulphure difcutitur facro, quam tuque „ domufque?

    A. Persii Flacci et Dec. Jun. Juvenalis satirae: Ad optimas editiones ... Persius, Juvenal , Sulpicia, C . Lucilius, Gaius Lucilius, Johann August Ernesti, Societas Bipontina, Johann Albert Fabricius 1785

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