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  • Qui et in famulitio viris et feminis inserviunt, conclavia scopis purgant, patinas mundant, ligna portant, equos curant, &c. 1200.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • I was not a little pleased to hear our host speak Latin, because I was in hope of recommending myself to him by my knowledge in that language; I therefore answered, without hesitation, “Dissolve frigus, ligna super foco — large reponens.”

    The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

  • Habet simile Seneca, dicens, fontem quendam esse, qui ligna in lapides conuertat, hominumque viscera indurescere, qui aquam eius biberint: Et addit eiusmodi fontes in quibusdam Itali� locis inueniri: quod Ouidias Ciconum flumini tribuit 15.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Islandi constructa, vsque ad illud tempus, quo illis cum Noruagis, qui ligna sufficiebant, negociatio, et mercium commutatio esse desijt, quæ inde paulatim collabi incipiunt: Cum nec syluas ædificijs aptas habeamus, nec fluctuum maris beneficio iam vt olim ad littora, quod minima ex parte sufficiat, adferatur: Nec mercatores extranei inopiæ nostræ succurrant.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Habet simile Seneca, dicens, fontem quendam esse, qui ligna in lapides conuertat, hominumque viscera indurescere, qui aquam eius biberint: Et addit eiusmodi fontes in quibusdam Italiæ locis inueniri: quod Ouidias Ciconum flumini tribuit 15.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Islandi constructa, vsque ad illud tempus, quo illis cum Noruagis, qui ligna sufficiebant, negociatio, et mercium commutatio esse desijt, qu� inde paulatim collabi incipiunt: Cum nec syluas

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Et accepit Abraham ligna holocausti, et posuit super Ishac filium suum, et accepit in manu sua ignem et gladium, et perrexerunt ambo pariter

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • Et surrexit Abraham mane, et stravit asinum suum, et cepit duos pueros suos secum, et Ishac filium suum: et scidit ligna holocausti: et surrexit, perrexitque ad locum, quem dixerat ei Deus.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • Et dixit, Ecce ignis et ligna, et ubi pecus in holocaustum?

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • Abraham altare, et ordinavit ligna, et ligavit Ishac filium suum, et posuit eum super altare super ligna.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

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