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They excavated the road to the depth of near June. twenty feet, and also constructed a kind of abbatis Aiclntara. across it.
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Yet after the abbatis abbatoir of Verdun and the unrequitable shame of 1940 the French turned to Indochine and Algerie with equally unrequited cran -- for identity-ratification -- for purification in battle, win or lose.
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Yet after the abbatis abbatoir of Verdun and the unrequitable shame of 1940 the French turned to Indochine and Algerie with equally unrequited cran -- for identity-ratification -- for purification in battle, win or lose.
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And of course, St. Brendan, my favorite of saints, had a famous run-in with a whale, as described in the Navigatio sancti Brendani abbatis which can be found in a nineteenth century translation here:
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And of course, St. Brendan, my favorite of saints, had a famous run-in with a whale, as described in the Navigatio sancti Brendani abbatis which can be found in a nineteenth century translation here:
WMAMing it up. 2008
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Ciaran bids his followers to fetch _materiam abbatis uestri_ -- "the makings of your abbot."
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Species of _Diarodon abbatis_, _Diatrion Santalon_, of each six drams; then cover the Still close, and lute it well, and distill the water with
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A large number of sermons and pious treatises were also written in Latin during this period, by Aelred of Rievaulx for example, and by others: "Beati Ailredi Rievallis abbatis Sermones" (and other works) in Migne's "Patrologia," vols.xxxii. and cxcv.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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New Berne, Plymouth, Vicksburg, and many other cities were elaborately fortified by field works which involved the handling of vast quantities of earth, and, where the opposing lines were near together, ditches, abbatis, ground torpedoes, and wire entanglements were freely used.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 Various
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"Wilhelmi abbatis gestorum liber", the life of his superior at Dijon, printed in Acta SS.,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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