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  • “Video, videre, visi, visus!” she would chant triumphantly, reciting her principal parts.

    The Legacy Kirsten Tranter 2010

  • Like Sarmiento the Spaniard, who when he was sent to discover the straits of Magellan, and confine places, by the Prorex of Peru, standing on the top of a hill, Amaenissimam planitiem despicere sibi visus fuit, aedificia magnifica, quamplurimos Pagos, alias Turres, splendida

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Amoris primum gradum visus habet, ut aspiciat rem amatam.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Turpium deliciarum comes est externa saltatio; neque certe facile dictu quae mala hinc visus hauriat, et quae pariat, colloquia, monstrosus, inconditos gestus, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Romani olim putabant fortunam regna et imperia dare: Credebant antea mortales fortunam solam opes et honores largiri, idque duabus de causis; primum quod indignus quisque dives honoratus, potens; alterum, vix quisquam perpetuo bonis iis frui visus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • A woman and death are two the bitterest things in the world: uxor mihi ducenda est hodie, id mihi visus est dicere, abi domum et suspende te.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Morton, being still in rerum natura, had appeared in his proper person that morning; or, finally, that some strong deceptio visus, or striking similitude of person, had deceived the eyes of

    Old Mortality 2004

  • Ad quam profectionem qu鎠itus quoque Orator vehemens, qui plebis in causa religionis animos excitaret, Turnehamus principi visus vel dignissimus est, qui munus hoc obiret.

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

  • Quisquis est Deus (si modo est alius) et quacunque in parte, totus est sensus, totus est visus, totus auditus, totus animae, totus animi, totus sui ...

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

  • Nam visus est ei Iehova, et dixit, Ne descendas in AEgyptum: habita in terra quam dicam tibi.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

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