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For a different use, see _Met_ III 640-41 '_dextera_ [_uar_ dextra] Naxos erat: _dextra_ mihi lintea danti/"quid facis, o demens? quis te furor," inquit "Acoete?"'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Our dextra pals seem particularly averse to portraying it this way, however.
Free speech or free pizza David 2007
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Inter oves locum præsta, et ab hædis me sequestra, statuens in parte dextra.
Archive 2009-06-01 bls 2009
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The fetus who developped in the right-most cell would be male and very masculine, because it was closest, again, to the source of heat (and hence of masculinity), the liver: Conches, Phil., p. 90: … si in dextra parte remaneat, quia hepar est in dextra parte matrici vicinum, meliore et calido sanguine nutritur fetus, masculus efficitur.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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He must submit; but he may say with truth, Si Pergama dextra defendi potuissent.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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Juvenis autem dextra pugionem super tergum tonsoris vibrans magna clamat voce [Arabic] i.e. caede sine timore.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Hierosolymam pertendit Illud fuit tempus quo Turci Baldwinum regem apud Ramas obsederunt: qui cum obsidionis iniuriam ferre nequiret, per medias hostium acies effugit, solius Roberti opera liberatus pr鎒untis, et euaginato gladio dextra leuaque Turcos c鎑entis.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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He did not know where it was, but by the use of the words semper dritte, dextra and sinestra she manoeuvred him to its approximate locality, where she dismounted and explored a labyrinth of familiar alleys.
Tender is the Night 2003
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Israel, et Menasseh ad sinistram suam, a dextra israel: accedere in quam fecit ad eum.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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At Jugurtha, dum sustentare suos et prope jam adeptam victoriam retinere cupit circumventus ab equitibus, dextra sinistra omnibus [564] occisis, solus inter tela hostium vitabundus [565] erumpit.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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