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  • Qui potare recusat, hostis habetur, et caede nonnunquam res expiatur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • So again, as soon as he had begun the war, we see what Cicero saith of him, Alter (meaning of Caesar) non recusat, sed quodammodo postulat, ut (ut est) sic appelletur tyrannus.

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

  • = 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

  • Sidonius _Carm_ XXIII 485-86 'horum nomina cum referre uersu/affectus cupiat, metrum recusat'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • [871] 'Inde illud Maecenatis turpissimum votum, quo et debilitatem non recusat, et deformitatem, et novissime acutam crucem dummodo inter haec mala spiritus prorogetur.

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • -- M. Gulielmus Edward curatus notatur officio quod recusat ministrare sacramenta ecelesiastica ægrotantibus nisi prius habitis pecuniis pro suo labore: p. 64, _St.

    The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856

  • [871] 'Inde illud Maecenatis turpissimum votum, quo et debilitatem non recusat, et deformitatem, et novissime acutam crucem dummodo inter haec mala spiritus prorogetur.

    Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767

  • Sortem quam omnes sancti patiuntur nemo recusat [No one escapes the lot which all the saints suffer].

    The Lord's Prayer 1692

  • * [2275] Sortem quam omnes sancti patiuntur nemo recusat

    The Lord's Prayer 1692

  • Cicero saith of him, Alter (meaning of Caesar) non recusat, sed quodammodo postulat, ut (ut est) sic appelletur tyrannus.

    The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon 1593

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