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  • The common signs, if it be by essence in the head, are ruddiness of face, high sanguine complexion, most part rubore saturato, [2624] one calls it, a bluish, and sometimes full of pimples, with red eyes.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Craterem nectaris evertit saltans apud Deos, qui in terram cadens, rosam prius albam rubore infecit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Thomas rubore confusus dixit se de argumento cogitasse.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ad hoc ego vltra confusus et stupefactus, nequiui inuenire responsum; verebar enim obloqui veritati, quamuis ab Infidelis ore prolatæ, et vultu præ rubore demisso percunctatus sum, Domine, salua reuerentia, qualiter potestis ita plenè hoc noscere?

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Ad hoc ego vltra confusus et stupefactus, nequiui inuenire responsum; verebar enim obloqui veritati, quamuis ab Infidelis ore prolat�, et vultu pr� rubore demisso percunctatus sum, Domine, salua reuerentia, qualiter potestis ita plen� hoc noscere?

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

  • * Putida igitur fuit Cynici illius protervia, qui in flagitio deprehensus, sine rubore jactavit se plantare hominem: [790] 1

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • "Putida igitur fuit Cynici illius protervia, qui in flagitio deprehensus, sine rubore jactavit se plantare hominem."

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • His ille chorus increpitus deiecit humi maestior uultum confessusque rubore uerecundiam limen tristis excessit.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Suffulta rubore perturbatur, quandocunque de jugali thalamo sermo intexitur.

    The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 William Hickling Prescott 1827

  • "Aciliano plurimum vigoris et industriae quanquam in maxima verecundia: est illi facies liberalis, multo sanguine, multo rubore, suffusa: est ingenua totius corporis pulchritudo et quidam senatorius decor, quae ego nequaquam arbitror negligenda: debet enim hoc castitati puellarum quasi praemium dari."

    Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer Richard Steele 1700

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