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Indeed, as the chief occupation of crags, and their only amusement, in mountainous regions, is to pelt unwary passengers and hunters of scenery with their _débris_, we might have _creag, quasi caregos faciens sive dejiciens, sicut rupes a rumpere_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various
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Annae pomiferum nemus Perennae. illinc Flaminiae Salariaeque gestator patet essedo tacente, ne blando rota sit molesta somno, 20 quem nec rumpere nauticum celeuma, nec clamor ualet helciariorum, cum sit tam prope Muluius, sacrumque lapsae per Tiberim uolent carinae. hoc rus, seu potius domus uocanda est, 25 commendat dominus: tuam putabis; tam non inuida tamque liberalis, tam comi patet hospitalitate. credas Alcinoi pios Penatis, aut facti modo diuitis Molorchi.
The Villa of Fulius Martialis Martial 1912
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That would still connect our Rutters with Lat. rumpere, but by a third road.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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* Malunt solvi conjuges matrimoniis, exheredari a parentibus liberi quam fidem rumpere Christianam et salutaris militiae sacramenta deponere:
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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Triftefque fumos, & nebulas globum Late fexenas rumpere copias,
Matthiae Casimiri Sarbievii e Societate Jesu, Carmina Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Joannes Michael van der Ketten 1791
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Frena ferox, hilarique bullant Collo popofcit I Non ego degenet Ignaya curfu rumpere cubila, '
Matthiae Casimiri Sarbievii e Societate Jesu, Carmina Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Joannes Michael van der Ketten 1791
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RegnL Haec di&a fufficiant; c&m ulteriorum (proh dolor!) notitiarum penuria filum narrationis ab - rumpere invitum me cogat.
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Quod fimul ac primum nubes fuccedere Soli Coepere & radios inter quafi rumpere lucis,
T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Titus Lucretius Carus , Thomas Creech , George Gordon Byron Byron 1770
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Vesperis ad metas extremaque litora mundi: nunc illum, pigris inmania monstra sub undis5 qui ferat, oceanum, qui saeuas undique pistris aequoreasque canis, ratibus consurgere prensis. accumulat fragor ipse metus: iam sidere limo nauigia et rapido desertam flumine classem seque feris credunt per inertia fata marinis10 quam non felici laniandos sorte relinqui. atque aliquis prora caecum sublimis ab alta aera pugnaci luctatus rumpere uisu, ut nihil erepto ualuit dinoscere mundo, obstructo talis effundit pectore uoces: 15
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saltim istud nostri forsan honoris habent? at qui sunt, quos propter honestum rumpere foedus
On Avarice 1912
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