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  • Libris et curis statua taciturnius exit, Plerunque et risu populum quatit, Hor. ep.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • “Good-bye to our fortune, and bad luck go with her — I puff the prostitute away — Si celeres quatit pennas, you remember what we used to say at Grey Friars — resign quae dedit, et mea virtute me involve, probamque pauperiem sine dote quaero.”

    The Newcomes 2006

  • Si celeres quatit pennas — you know the rest — no?

    The Virginians 2006

  • Onomatopœia is the suiting of sound to sense; as, -- quadrupedante putrem sonitū quatit ungula campum, '_And shake with horny hoofs the solid ground_.'

    New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

  • The earth shook with the stamping of the hoofs, "_Quadrupedante putrem crepitu quatit ungula campum_."

    Dr. Dumany's Wife M��r J��kai 1864

  • Alternate pity and admiration harrowed up in my bosom anti my brain, many a hidden thought; and amongst them a few of the beautiful notes that were once sung, and exactly in point: (Quadrupedante pufrena sonitn quatit ungula campum.)

    Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians 1841

  • "Good-bye to our fortune, and bad luck go with her -- I puff the prostitute away -- Si celeres quatit pennas, you remember what we used to say at Grey Friars -- resign quae dedit, et mea virtute me involve, probamque pauperiem sine dote quaero."

    The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Some have supposed it a poetical imitation of the sound of the trampling of horses, and compare this passage with the celebrated line of Virgil -- "Quadrupedante putrem sonitu quatit ungula campum."

    Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I Francis Augustus Cox 1818

  • Mente quatit solidâe [3] before I quit the French let one remark that that very National Assembly which you have stigmatised as a rabble of pettifogging attorneys & illiterate barbarians has furnished men who had the courage to preserve their duty at the expence of their lives

    Letter 24 1792

  • The first was of Sir j *** D ***, who had wrote down the first stanza of justum et tenacem, altering the last line to Mente quatit Carthusiana.

    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757

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