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  • Domus Diruunt, muros dejiciunt, immiscent se turbinibus et procellis et pulverem instar columnae evehunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • These two ingredients, mixed with powdered charcoal, have, by means of a little vinegar, or solution of sal-ammoniac, or urine, formed large balls, which balls have been reduced in pulverem pyrium by a mill.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Et ponam semen tuum sicut pulverem terrae: quia si poterit quisquam numerare pulverem terrae, etiam semen tuum numerabit.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • Et dixit Jehova ad serpentem, Quia fecisti hoc, maledicuts eris prae omni animali, et prae omni bestia agri: super ventrem tuum gradieris, et pulverem comedes omnibus diebus vitae tuae.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • In sudore vultus tui vesceris pane, donec revertaris in terram: quia ex ea sumptus es: nam pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • The Annals of Winton say, "_Combusta est et redacta in pulverem Ecclesia de Theokesberia_" -- an untenable hypothesis; but the Tewkesbury Chronicles merely mention that the monastery and the offices were destroyed.

    Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire

  • Quin ergo quod juvat, quod carum aestimant, id semper faciant; [463] ament, potent, ubi adolescentiam habuere, ibi senectutem agant, in conviviis, dediti ventri et turpissimae parti corporis; sudorem, pulverem et alia talia relinquant nobis, quibus illa epulis jucundiora sunt.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Sunt, quos curriculo pulverem Olympicum, and if we take into consideration that Juror says in the same scene: --

    Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis

  • "Velamina etiam mulierum, quæ ad verecundiam designandam eis sunt concessa, sed nunc, per insipientiam earum, in lasciviam et luxuriam excreverunt, it immoderata longitudo superpelliccorum quibus pulverem trahunt, ad moderatum usum, sicut decet verecundiam sexus, per excommunicationis sententiam cohibeantur."

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various

  • And thus should we understand of the Holy Ghost, after this that David saith: Auferes spiritum eorum et deficient et in pulverem, etc.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900

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