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Dishonest people, of course, judge every man by their own shortcomings, so if they do not believe my recommendation to be sincere, I will not argue the point: the red sun wobbles on the edge of extinction too narrowly to allow for a complete examination of the question, and once it is quenched in eternal darkness the issue must appear moot, not to say nuncupatory.

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He made a nuncupatory will, declaring Augustus his heir, not being able, from the violence of his disorder, to sign one in due form.

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

Mr. Bowyer bad, by a nuncupatory bequest, directed his copy of "ChirihuUs Travels," v-ith MS Notes -, to be presented; which particular copy 1 had afterwards occasion to borrow:

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Yet the Jupiter, (in the 16th book of the Iliad,) who laments with tears of blood the death of Sarpedon his son, had a very imperfect notion of happiness or glory beyond the grave.] [Footnote 97: The soldiers who made their verbal or nuncupatory testaments, upon actual service, (in procinctu,) were exempted from the formalities of the Roman law.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765

"Brothers," said he, "you are to be informed that of wills, duo sunt genera, nuncupatory and scriptory, {77a} that in the scriptory will here before us there is no precept or mention about gold lace, conceditur, but si idem affirmetur de nuncupatorio negatur.

A Tale of a Tub Jonathan Swift 1706

Yet the Jupiter, (in the 16th book of the Iliad,) who laments with tears of blood the death of Sarpedon his son, had a very imperfect notion of happiness or glory beyond the grave.] 97 The soldiers who made their verbal or nuncupatory testaments, upon actual service, (in procinctu,) were exempted from the formalities of the Roman law.

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