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  • ** _Contopus pertinax pertinax_ Cabanis and Heine.

    Birds from Coahuila, Mexico Emil K. Urban

  • Viola (pertinax -- pert); I want a Latin word for various studies -- failures all -- to express its saucy little stuck-up way, and exquisitely trim peltate leaf.

    Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

  • Species of particular concern include the endangered Bonaire Lora (Amazonia barbadensis) and Aruban burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia arubensis), the Aruban parakeet (Aratinga pertinax arubensis), Bonaire Green parrot, and flamingos.

    Aruba-Curaçao-Bonaire cactus scrub 2008

  • Immo edepol pertinax; quin etiam ut magis noscas: Genio suo ubi quando sacruficat, 290 ad rem divinam quibus est opus, Samiis vasis utitur, ne ipse Genius surripiat: proinde aliis ut credat vide.

    Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

  • Of this beetle there are varieties, viz.: ` ` A. pertinax, '' ` ` A. eruditus, '' and ` ` A.paniceum. ''

    The Enemies of Books 1888

  • One, I remember, was conveyed into the Natural History Department, and was taken into custody by Mr. Adam White who pronounced it to be Anobium pertinax.

    The Enemies of Books 1888

  • Other writers say ` ` Acarus eruditus '' or ` ` Anobium pertinax '' are the correct scientific names.

    The Enemies of Books 1888

  • In the ` ` Schoeffer '' book the holes are probably the work of Anobium pertinax, because the centre is spared and both ends attacked.

    The Enemies of Books 1888

  • "Schoeffer" book the holes are probably the work of Anobium pertinax, because the centre is spared and both ends attacked.

    The Enemies of Books William Blades 1857

  • One, I remember, was conveyed into the Natural History Department, and was taken into custody by Mr. Adam White who pronounced it to be Anobium pertinax.

    The Enemies of Books William Blades 1857

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