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  • It ought to have a passive form, like 'loquor' (though that passive should be reserved for parrots).

    The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Israel Zangwill 1895

  • Wherfore, sith the necessitie with honour, and having dwelt comfortably at this and possessed of certain conclusions in respect of handsome painted glass. either the antiquaries highsouled assailant, caused the earth in that hic sapiens, de quo loquor, oculis quibus iste an eye, stood mace in hand.

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  • Non loquor de omni desperatione, sed tantum de ea qua desperare solent homines de Deo; opponitur spei, et est peccatum gravissimum,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • (Expertus loquor), and may truly say with [121] Jovius in like case, (absit verbo jactantia) heroum quorundam, pontificum, et virorum nobilium familiaritatem et amicitiam, gratasque gratias, et multorum [122] bene laudatorum laudes sum inde promeritus, as I have been honoured by some worthy men, so have I been vilified by others, and shall be.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • “Vive memor lethi, fugit hora, hoc quod loquor inde est?”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • But, indeed, the boy is a brave boy, and a quick boy, Sir Richard, but more forgetful than Lethe; and — sapienti loquor — it were well if he were away, for I shall never see him again without my head aching.

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • Note 50: Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo I in dominica Palmarum, PL 183.255: "qui parvulus natus est, et primam parvulorum elegit aciem (Innocentes loquor), hodie quoque parvulos a gratia non excludit." back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Tressilian mustered his learning to reply, “Linguae latinae haud penitus ignarus, venia tua, Domine eruditissime, vernaculam libentius loquor.”

    Kenilworth 2004

  • Hoc secundum eos loquor qui dicunt quod habeat Spiritus descensorium motum ...

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • I now come to that locality over which my own observation extended, and concerning which -- "_Haud ignota loquor_" -- I can speak with a good degree of accuracy.

    A Full Description of the Great Tornado in Chester County, Pa. Richard Darlington

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