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  • As generally most parts of the West Riding of _Yorkeshire_ (especially the hilly and more mountaineous places thereof) are stored with fountaines and springs of cleare, limpide, and pure simple waters; so likewise the territorie here abouts is not without plenty of them.

    Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain Edmund Deane

  • C’était plaisir de voir sous l’eau limpide et bleue15

    Le Pont Kerlô 1920

  • Thus the preface to the Vatican Gradual says: "ipsa cogente syllabarum natura, vox de una ad alteram limpide transiens tunc 'liquescit'; ita ut in ore compressa 'non finiri videatur', et quasi dimidium suæ, non moræ, sed potestatis amittat".

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • Among other works, Max Ernst's brilliant mural "Au premier mot limpide" (1923) and Joan Miró's

    Art Knowledge News Tilley Masterson 2010

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