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  • Abusus tam frequens hodie in Europa ut plerique crebro harum usu patrimonium profundant, exhaustisque facultatibus, ad inopiam redigantur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ex leporum intuitu plerique infantes edunt bifido superiore labello.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • There is not any slavery which these villains will not undergo, inter illos plerique latrinas evacuant, alii culinariam curant, alii stabularios agunt, urinatores et id genus similia exercent, &c. like those people that dwell in the

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Daemones consulunt, et familiares habent daemones plerique sacerdotes.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Alii pro pecunia emunt nobilitatem, alii illam lenocinio, alii veneficiis, alii parricidiis; multis perditio nobilitate conciliat, plerique adulatione, detractione, calumniis, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quoniam bella acerbissima dei flagella sunt quibus hominum pertinaciam punit, ea perpetua oblivione sepelienda potius quam memoriae mandanda plerique judicant.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Pliny, the naturalist, says: “Coccyx ova subdit in nidis alienis; ita plerique alienas uxores faciunt matres” — “the cuckoo deposits its eggs in the nest of other birds; so the Romans not unfrequently made mothers of the wives of their friends.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Habetur et alius puteus aut fons intra illa montana, quem plerique similiter fontem

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Habetur et alius puteus aut fons intra illa montana, quem plerique similiter fontem

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

  • * Unum autem esse Spiritum nemo dubitaverit; etsi de uno Deo plerique dubitaverunt: [5700] 1

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

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