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  • Even were that event to happen, I am not ambitious of the honoured distinction, digito monstrari.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • She had lived all her life in retirement — the monstrari gigito of idle men had not flattered her, and at the age of nineteen or twenty she was no further on in social consciousness than an urban young lady of fifteen.

    A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

  • I found my fame much grown on this return to civilisation. digito monstrari is a new experience; people all looked at me in the streets in Sydney; and it was very queer.

    Vailima Letters 2005

  • It醧ue iam vides Lector, ad h鎐 refellenda nullo alio esse opus, qu鄊 monstrari quomodo secum dissideant.

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

  • Itáque iam vides Lector, ad hæc refellenda nullo alio esse opus, quàm monstrari quomodo secum dissideant.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • But the air of amused compassion with which the lusty Down-Easter, who had made me feel what the _digito monstrari_ was, now looked down on me, raised a feeling of resentment and self-depreciation which left me in no mood to make a brilliant show of scholarship in construing my "Isocrates" that morning.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

  • Surely if plagiarism can ever be said "digito monstrari et dicier hic est," it is here.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various

  • I like a quiet life; I do not want monstrari digito, as Horace says.

    The Altar Fire Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

  • She had lived all her life in retirement -- the monstrari gigito of idle men had not flattered her, and at the age of nineteen or twenty she was no further on in social consciousness than an urban young lady of fifteen.

    A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1884

  • I felt rather sneaking as I came home from the Parliament-house -- felt as if I were liable _monstrari digito_ in no very pleasant way.

    Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) Richard Holt Hutton 1861

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