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Campus amoris maximus et spinis obsitus, nec levissimo pede transvolandus.
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Euonymus, Bheir, Lantana, and a Menispermum, are common shrubs on the building, also Solanum quercifolium, spinis albis floribus coeruleo purpureis.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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_M. _ obscurè fusco-ferruginea; thorace rufo-fulvo; capite thoraceque carinis irregularibus; metathorace spinis duabus longis armato.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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_C. _ niger, lævis et nitidus; antennis tarsisque pallidè testaceis; thorace spinis duabus acutis armato.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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_Pedes_ mediocres; femora posteriora spinis minutis armata.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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For instance, in recommending a certain kind of quickset fence, he insists upon it as one of its advantages -- that it will not readily ignite under the torch of the mischievous wayfarer: "Naturale sepimentum," says he, "quod obseri solet virgultis aut spinis, _praetereuntis lascivi non metuet facem_."
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 572, October 20, 1832 Various
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Make a longitudinal incision in the mesial line from snout to root of tail, and four transverse incisions -- one joining the roots of the two ears, one across the body at the level of the spinis of the scapulæ, another at the level of the costal margin and the last across the upper level of the pelvis.
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Euphorbia ramis 4-gonis, foliis? in spinis abeuntibus!
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Ovid more commonly uses _renouare_, as at _Tr_ V xii 23-24 'fertilis, assiduo si non renouetur aratro,/nil nisi cum spinis gramen habebit ager', _Am_ I iii 9, _Met_ I 110 & XV 125, _Fast_ I 159, and _Tr_ IV vi 13.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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_M. _ rufo-testacea, lævis, tota nitidissima nuda; mandibulis, antennis, pedum articulationibus tarsisque palles-centibus; metathoracis spinis minutissimis.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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