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Henceforth, therefore, — nulla viro juranti foemina credat, let not maids believe them.
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Sibi timens circa res venereas, solitudines amat quo solus sola foemina fruatur.
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Quos vir, quos tuto foemina nulla videt! — — — O sacred looks, befitting majesty,
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Thus men are active and passive, and women not far behind them in this kind: Audax ad omnia foemina, quae vel amat, vel odit.
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Frederick the Great said of his sister, that she was sexu foemina, vir ingenio — in sex a woman, and in mind a man.
The Newcomes 2006
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Cui foemina sit, eam amicis libenter praebet; si in itinere sit, uxori in castris manenti aliquis ejus supplet ille vires.
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Et quae ingressa sunt, masculus et foemina ex omni carne ingressa sunt, quemadmodum praeceperat ei Deus: et clausit Jehova super eum.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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Et ex omni vivente, ex omni carne, bina ex omnibus introduces in arcam, ut viva serventur tecum, masculus et foemina erunt.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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That bitter strife -- _Dux foemina facti_ -- was in continuation of the issue opened by
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various
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Of song, as of religion, it may perhaps be said: _Dux foemina facti_.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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