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It is evidence at least of "game," _non fractum esse fortunâ et retinere in rebus asperis, dignitatem_ -- is it not?
Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee John Esten Cooke 1858
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W.C. caudice arboreo, foliolis bipinnatis, pinnis acuminatis apice serratis, pinnulis oblongis serratis, rachibus punctato-asperis.
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C. frondibus triplicato - pinnatis, pinnulis ob - longis obtusis serratis coadunatis, rachibus punctato-asperis, caudice arboreo.
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MS.); pilis stellatis brevibus rigidis asperis, foliis angusto-linearibus obtusis marginibus revolutis, floribus in ramos breves solitariis, staminibus sub-12 unilateralibus, filamentis infra medium inaequaliter connexis antheras longitudine aequantibus, ovario parvo globoso lanato.] 143 [T.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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"Invenit et Teucer eadem ætate Teucrion, quam quidam 'Hemionion' vocant, spargentem juncos tenues, folia parva, asperis locis nascentem, austero sapore, nunquam florentem: neque semen gignit.
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MS.); pilis stellatis brevibus rigidis asperis, foliis angusto-linearibus obtusis marginibus revolutis, floribus in ramos breves solitariis, staminibus sub-12 unilateralibus, filamentis infra medium inaequaliter connexis antheras longitudine aequantibus, ovario parvo globoso lanato.] [***** T.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Thomas Mitchell 1823
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Some praise, however, and from some people, does at once delight and strengthen the mind, and I insert in this place the quotation with which Ld.C. Baron Shepherd concluded a letter concerning me to the C.ief C.mmissioner: "_Magna etiam illa laus et admirabilis videri solet tulisse casus sapienter adversos, non fractum esse fortunâ, retinuisse in rebus asperis dignitatem.
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801
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[Footnote 7: In petrosis collibus et asperis, fabulosis apricisque locis, apud Germanos nascitur.
The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 6 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed William Curtis 1772
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