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  • Altera gramineo spectabis equiriacampo Quem Tiberis curvis in latus urget aquis, Qui tamen ejecta si forte tenebitur unda,

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • If I may use the word "wages" just once more I would say that we were very pleased when the Gordon Commission spoke so emphatically about the urget necessity for improving the income of the members of university faculties.

    The Canadian Labour Congress and Free Trade Unions Throughout the World 1957

  • The patient, if he does not, as it has sometimes happened in the cases to which we have referred, become "pugil et medicum urget," is sure, as in those instances, to triumph over all the proofs which reason can suggest, or that the hellebore of nine Anticyras could furnish him with capacity to understand.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various

  • As for the former, it is noted by Paracelsus especially, and by others, that there are signs often given of the Departure of sick Men lying on their death beds, of which this opening of the Iron Coffer or Chest, and closing again, is more than ordinary significant, especially if we recall to mind that of Virgil: “Olli dura quies oculos & ferreus urget

    The Iron Chest of Durley 1921

  • Glauco et Panopeae et Inoo Melicertae. sol quoque et exoriens et cum se condet in undas15 signa dabit; solem certissima signa sequuntur, et quae mane refert et quae surgentibus astris. ille ubi nascentem maculis uariauerit ortum conditus in nubem medioque refugerit orbe, suspecti tibi sint imbres: namque urget ab alto20 arboribusque satisque Notus pecorique sinister. aut ubi sub lucem densa inter nubila sese diuersi rumpent radii, aut ubi pallida surget

    Solem quis dicere falsum audeat? Vergil 1912

  • Nam si, uti corporum languor, ita uitiositas quidam est quasi morbus animorum, cum aegros corpore minime dignos odio sed potius miseratione iudicemus, multo magis non insequendi sed miserandi sunt quorum mentes omni languore atrocior urget improbitas.

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

  • Quis _multa_ gracilis te puer in _rosa_ perfusis liquidis urget odoribus

    The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907

  • Hinc ilium, voti compotem, non aliunde quam ab homine necis periculum urget: tu ergo, humanitate assumpta eum intertice.

    Ramayana. English Valmiki 1866

  • In the Spring, as soon as the bees are able to fly abroad, "innatus urget amor habendi," as Virgil has expressed it; that is, they begin to feel the force of an innate love of honey-getting.

    Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852

  • [28] "Ut lethargicus hic, cum fit pugil, et medicum urget."

    The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

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