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[Sidenote: Scotorum à circio, Pictorum ab aquilone.] from the north, and as men thus quite dismaid, lament their miserable case, not knowing what else to doo for the space of manie yéeres togither.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England Raphael Holinshed
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Navicando infra 'l subsolano ed aquilone in spatio di leghe CL et de gia avendo consumato tutte le nostre substantie navale et vettovaglie, avendo discopruto leghe DII cive leghe 700, piu do nuova terra fornendoci di acque et legne deliberammo di tornare in Francia.
The Voyage of Verrazzano A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America Henry Cruse Murphy 1846
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Their land was north of the countries that they destroyed, who were therefore threatened with evil from the north (Omne malum ab aquilone -- Every evil comes from the north); but God will find out nations yet further north to come upon them.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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Talia jadanti fbidens aquilone procclla Vclum adverfa ferit fludusquc ad fidera tollit; -
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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Talia jatenti ftridens aquilone procella dum adveria ferit, fludusque ad fidera tollit; nmguntnr remi: tum prora avertity et undis lat latos: infequitur cumulo praeruptus aqua mons.
P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796
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“La storia narra dell’incontro fortuito fra un marinaio in maglia gialla responsabile del movimento aereo ed un aquilone impigliato in un velivolo.”
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Si tratta di un video poco convenzionale sul kiteboarding, disciplina del surf che prevede l’usio di un aquilone.
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14 (Omne malum ab aquilone -- Every evil comes from the north), and, long after, the Roman empire was overrun by the northern nations, that he will bring him upon the mountains of Israel (v. 2), first as a place of temptation, where the measures of his iniquity shall be filled up, and then as a place of execution, where his ruin shall be completed.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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Episcoporum "(II, viii, 44) says that the subdeacon stands" vertens renes non quidem altari, sed versus ipsam partem dexteram quæ pro aquilone figuratur ".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
Prolagus commented on the word aquilone
Kite.
June 17, 2008