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  • Nulli ilium juvenes, nullæ tetigere puellæ: 377 for Epaminondas, whose name is mentioned with three beloveds, established the Holy Regiment composed of mutual lovers, testifying the majesty of Eros and preferring to a discreditable life a glorious death.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Nulli alteri sapere concedit ne desipere videatur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Nulli beatiores habiti, quam qui in praelus cecidissent.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Non satis aestimare, an melior parens natura homini, an tristior noverca fuerit: Nulli fragilior vita, pavor, confusio, rabies major, uni animantium ambitio data, luctus, avaritia, uni superstitio.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • For those who volunteered and served where they were commanded, the Crown and Canada recognized their service, which might be described in the motto of Your Excellency's Toronto regiment, the governor General's Horse Guards, as "Nulli secundus" ( "Second to none").

    Our Responsibility to Youth 1985

  • Nulli jactantius moerent, quam qui loetantur* (* None mourn with more affectation of sorrow than those who are inwardly rejoiced), or to give Tacitus a free translation, you're reckoning up the bloody dollars already!

    Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • Nulli vendemus, nulli negabimus, aut deferemus Iustitiam.

    John Adams diary 11, 18 - 29 December 1765 1961

  • [248] Innocent IV. confirms (ab. 1254) all the "immunitates et laudabiles, antiquas, rationabiles consuetudines" of Oxford: "Nulli ergo hominum liceat hanc paginam nostræ protectionis infringere vel ausu temerario contraire."

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • 'Nulli se dicit mulier mea nubere malle quam mihi, non si se Iuppiter ipse petat.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Nulli unquam principum in secundis agenti illos fictos plausus vel metus dedit, vel adulatio vendidit, quàm hic verissimos expressere fuga, carcer, theatrum et illa omnium funestissima securis, qua obstupe, fecit hostes moriens et cæsus triumphavit.

    Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

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