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The understory is dominated by two endemic species: the palm Arenga listeri and the tree-like Pandanus elatus.
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Notable are Tabebuia angustata (roble de yugo), Fraxinus cubensis (búfano), Annona glabra, Gueltarda combiri, Sabal parviflora, Bucida palustris, Hibiscus elatus, H. tiliaceus (majagua), Jatropha integerrima, Copernicia spp.
Cuban wetlands 2007
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Gloria tantum elatus, non ira, in medios hostes irruere, quod completis muris conspici se pugnantem, a muro spectantibus, egregium ducebat.
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Vanity, pride, pettiness and a desire to impose one's will on others are among the effects of original sin which Augustine discusses at some length and he says explicitly that Adam and Eve held God's original command in contempt because they were "puffed up with pride" ( "elatus superbia").
Sex and Sin Weithman, Paul J. 1989
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At vero elatus, in funesto sacrilegi cordis desiderio perseverans, _flammis combustus_ cum suis participibus seditiosis Gracchis, exemplum sui cunctis hæreticis relinquens deperiit.
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird
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Némethy's explanation 'poeta elatus superbia tectum uertice tangere sibi uidetur'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Excessit e vita Anno Aetatis suae 49° et honorifica pompa elatus ex Aedibus
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746
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Sed non statuendo tandem felicitati modum, nec cohibendo efferentem se fortunam, quanto altiùs elatus erat, eo fœdiùs corruit.
The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) Charles Rollin 1701
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Ecclesia se abrumpens, doctoris arrogantia elatus ac tumidus, tanquam præstantior cæteris, novam quandam formam doctrinæ conflavit: Æonas invisibiles commentus perinde ac Valentinus: asserens quoque cum Saturnino
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John Isaac Newton 1684
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But there it was the Cyclopogon elatus, a flowering spike shooting up from a rotting log in the park west of Copeland, Fla.
ScrippsNews - current events, culture, commentary, community 2009
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