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  • Have just invested in a sewing machine - need some inspiration to get me started - am a complete novis - but what could be better than this?

    It's Giveaway Time!!!! Katy 2009

  • Olim relictos — — — etsi non ignorarem novos fortasse detractores novis hisce interpolationibus meis minime defuturos.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Superficie corporis, aquae marine frigore et pondere, compressa et contracta, interstitia fibrarum occluduntur: particulis incrementi novis partes abrasas reficientibus, locus non datur.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • Decretalium Loco esse possint: - Annotationes Ant. Naldi, cum Addit. novis.

    John Adams diary 4, October 1759 - 20 November 1761, 21 November 1772 1961

  • Sed pariter cum capta Thala legati ex oppido Lepti ad Metellum venerant orantes, uti praesidium praefectumque eo mitteret; Hamilcarem quendam, hominem nobilem, factiosum, novis rebus studere, adversum quem neque imperia magistratuum neque leges valerent; ni id festinaret, in summo periculo suam salutem, illorum [402] socios fore.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Catilina praeceperat, quoscunque moribus aut fortuna novis rebus idoneos credebat, aut per se aut per alios sollicitabat, neque solum cives, sed cujusque modi genus hominum, quod modo bello usui foret.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Plures isdem in locis villas possidebat adamatisque novis priores neglegebat.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • _Lyc_. effare potius, quod novis thalamis parem regale munus.

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

  • Vetera novis augere et perficere -- "To strengthen and complete the old by aid of the new" -- is the motto of the restoration proposed by Leo XIII.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • In Beethoven's monumental Mass in D, solo and chorus sing the "Agnus ... novis" thrice adagio, the "Dona" forming a new movement in allegretto vivace and requiring more than three times as many pages as the thrice-repeated "Agnus"; so, too, in his Mass in C, the "Dona", allegro ma non troppo, takes thrice as many pages as the whole preceding text in poco andante.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

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