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  • You'll just have to "patienter"... meantime, here is an episode that took place just before the fall from fashion grace.

    French Perfume 2010

  • You'll just have to "patienter"... meantime, here is an episode that took place just before the fall from fashion grace.

    French Destinations 2010

  • You'll just have to "patienter" ... meantime, here is an episode that took place just before the fall from fashion grace.)

    French Perfume 2010

  • You'll just have to "patienter" ... meantime, here is an episode that took place just before the fall from fashion grace.)

    French Destinations 2010

  • Syracuse, in his exile, was made to stand without door, patienter ferendum, fortasse nos tale quid fecimus, quum in honore essemus, he wisely put it up, and laid the fault where it was, on his own pride and scorn, which in his prosperity he had formerly showed others.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Note 89: Must., pp. 15 — 16, esp.chap. 44: "Quomodo mense septimo agendae sunt gravidae mulieres? in omnibus patienter et quiete, ne nimia gestatione pecus iam perfectum foris excutiatur, siquidem etiam et septimani nasci possunt."

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

  • J'avais pas d'monnaie (oui comme j'devais payer mes livres commandé avec la carte) alors j'ai du faire patienter la vendeuse le temps qu'j'aille tirer des sous ... j'me suis excusé au moins 10 fois de suite et encore en repartant du magasin ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005

  • She spakes to me o 'meself, and the wickedness in me heart; and when she leans so lovingly on me shoulder, and raises her clear eyes to the blue sky, or watches the bright sunset, and spakes so softly to me o' the beauty o 'a holy life, I feel all the betther and patienter meself for hearing the good words.

    Live to be Useful or, The Story of Annie Lee and her Irish Nurse Anonymous

  • = At _Tr_ V iv 15-16 Ovid had used _frena recusare_ of a horse: 'fert tamen, ut debet, casus patienter amaros,/more nec indomiti _frena recusat_ equi'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • He listened, as Suetonius says, ‘benigne et patienter’.

    Introduction 1912

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