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  • Nam neque arborum comae pro pecorum tuguriis factae meridie per aestatem, optabilem exhibentes umbram oves ita reficiunt, ac scripturarum lectio afflictas angore animas solatur et recreat.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ecce, nunc mihi sunt duae filiae, quae non cognoverunt virum, educam nunc eas ad vos, et facite eis sicut bonum erit oculis vestris: tantum viris istis ne faciatis quicquam, eo quod venerunt in umbram tigni mei.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • Ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram, to the meridian brightness of the Elysian fields;

    Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994

  • The next follow in their order, being set together in this _little_ book, that in winter you may reade them _ad ignem_, by the fire-side, and in summer _ad umbram_, under some shadie tree, and therewith passe away the tedious howres.

    Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

  • He is unworthy of the line nec cinis exiguus tantam compescuit umbram.

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

  • Nox et caeruleam terris infuderat umbram. ille propinquabat silvis et ab aggere celso scuta virum galeasque videt rutilare comantes, qua laxant rami nemus adversaque sub umbra flammeus aeratis lunae tremor errat in armis. obstipuit visis, ibat tamen, horrida tantum spicula et inclusum capulo tenus admovet ensem. ac prior unde, viri, quidve occultatis in armis? 'non humili terrore rogat. nec reddita contra vox, fidamque negant suspecta silentia pacem.

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

  • Undique erat magna variōrum flōrum cōpia et multa ingentium arborum genera quae aestāte [9] umbram dēfessīs agricolīs grātissimam adferēbant.

    Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900

  • [1589] "Simili modo tradunt in Syene oppido, quod est super Alexandriam quinque millibus stadiorum, solstitii die medio nullam umbram jaci; puteumque ejus experimenti gratia factum, totum illuminari."

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • Nam corpus producit umbram vi atque necessitate, nec liberius agit corpus lucidum: Deus vero omnia nutu conficit et voluntate.

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • Quis ergo crederet, umbram vel simulacrum corporis aliquam conferre piis utilitatem?

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

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