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  • Teresa: A solis ortu usque ad occasum, laudabile nomen Domini.

    Kerry's wife battling cancer 2009

  • Sol occasum nesciens, stella semper rutilans, semper clara.

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  • Sol occasum nesciens, stella semper rutilans, semper clara.

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  • Ad occasum solis aegre domum rediens, atque totum die ex adverso deae sedens recto, in ipsam perpetuo oculorum ictus direxit, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • For the very day that he married he was so furious, ut solis occasum minus expectare posset (a terrible, a monstrous long day), he could not stay till it was night, sed omnibus insalutatis in thalamum festinans irrupit, the meat scarce out of his mouth, without any leave taking, he would needs go presently to bed.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Note 45: Burton, 340 — 341: "… Hugonem … quidam ejusdem civitatis Judaeus nomine Jopinus, jam sole vergente ad occasum, a suorum contribulium et coaetaneorum jocis ac choreis tetensis insidiis furtive sustulit …." back

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

  • Cap. Cum ergo in prima sexta feria post diem cinerum, Sole ad occasum tendente, hospitaremur, Tartari super nos armati horribiliter irruerunt, quærentes cuiusmodi homines essemus: cúmque respondissemus, quòd Domini Papæ nuncij essemus, quibusdam cibarijs

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • Orientem, aut Occidentem fluat, an ver� pro ratione 鎠tuum fluat et refluat, in medio inquam canali, hoc est, an ibi, sex horis in occasum, et iterum sex in ortum fluat, an ver� semper hi eandem partem: ali� enim speculationes non parum vtiles hinc dependent.

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

  • Cap. Cum ergo in prima sexta feria post diem cinerum, Sole ad occasum tendente, hospitaremur, Tartari super nos armati horribiliter irruerunt, qu鎟entes cuiusmodi homines essemus: c鷐que respondissemus, qu騞 Domini Pap� nuncij essemus, quibusdam cibarijs

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

  • * Solis ad occasum, quum frigidus aera vespe: [5682] 1

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

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