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Recondite interests percolated at Urbino as early as the 1470s.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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No one at Screwstown had ever seen these Digbies: they lay amidst the Far -- the Recondite -- even to the wife of Colonel Pompley's bosom.
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'Recondite Forms' because -- But you will understand it better after you have played it.
Harper's Young People, November 18, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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Recondite sources have not always been referred to, in order not to overload a text which at best is apt to tax the reader's powers of attention.
Rashi Liber, Maurice 1906
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'Recondite, my dear,' said Aunt Julia, who never pretended not to know when a shaft had been planted.
Franklin Kane Anne Douglas Sedgwick 1904
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Recondite analytical methods received a confirmation brilliant and intelligible even to the minds of the vulgar, and emerged from the patient solitude of the study to enjoy an hour of clamorous triumph.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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Lord Lumley, Bishop Hacket says, 'did pursue Recondite Learning as much as any of his Honourable Rank in those Times, and was the owner of a most precious Library, the search and collection of Mr. Humfry
English Book Collectors William Younger Fletcher 1871
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Recondite scholars in the physical beauty of the Greeks, from Boston, were there; fair women from Washington, whose charms make the reputation of many a newspaper correspondent; spirited stars of official and diplomatic life, who have moments of longing to shine in some more languorous material paradise, had made a hasty flitting to be present at the ceremony, sustained by
The Golden House Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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Recondite scholars in the physical beauty of the Greeks, from Boston, were there; fair women from
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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No one at Screwstown had ever seen these Digbies: they lay amidst the Far, the Recondite, -- even to the wife of Colonel Pompley's bosom.
My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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