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By Contemporaneidade e surpresa em uma cama suspensa | Marcos César Interiores on August 4, 2009 at 11: 53 pm
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Collo suspensa et pergameno inscripta, cum signo crucis, &c.
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Num momento de perfeição ballardiana, o tempo congela, a mão procura a máquina, inatingível, a aeronave de brilho metálico parece suspensa, e o piloto acena, sorrindo lentamente, e no momento seguinte tudo se acelera, o avião passa velozmente.
... Artur 2007
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"Nec ante ad consules ... famam ejus cladis perlatam, quam in conspectu fuere Gallorum equites pectoribus equorurn suspensa gestantes capita, et lanceis infixa ovantesque moris sui carmine."
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'Defit namque omnis hiatu, secta est omnis humus penitusque cavata latebris exiles suspensa vias agit'; and Sen. _N. Q._ v. 14, 1, 'N.n tota solido contextu terra in imum usque fundatur, sed multis partibus cava et caecis suspensa latebris.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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A littera rictu patulo, suspensa neque impressa dentibus lingua, enuntiatur.
The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord
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Leucothoe, frenatque rosis delphina Palaemon; alternas uiolis Nereus interserit algas; canitiem Glaucus ligat inmortalibus herbis. nec non et uariis uectae Nereides ibant audito rumore feris (hanc pisce soluto165 subleuat Oceani monstrum Tartesia tigris; hanc timor Aegaei rupturus fronte carinas trux aries; haec caeruleae suspensa leaenae innatat; haec uiridem trahitur complexa iuuencum), certatimque nouis onerant conubia donis.
The Marriage of Honorius and Maria Claudian 1912
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Thus the common yellow-bell (_Forsythia virdissima_) remains stiff and hard for some years, whereas _F. suspensa_ makes a rolling heap of green in two or three years.
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[Footnote 219: 'Nec aliqua probatur appellatione suspensa.'] 6.
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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And shall I tell you what they now say here of us -- I fear not without some cause -- even as Lipsius wrote of the French, 'De Gallis quidem enigmata veniunt, non veniunt, volunt, holunt, audent, timent, omnia, ancipiti metu, suspensa et suspecta.'
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-86) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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