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Examples
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'Seneca, qui fuit avonculus eius, quia ex abrupto incohabat, hos vii. versus addidit: "Bella per Emathios" usque "et pila minantia pilis."'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Teresa: A solis ortu usque ad occasum, laudabile nomen Domini.
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One of these two openings is deeper than the other, for it was a favour granted only to persons of distinction to introduce their objects of piety (sanctuaria usque ad secundam cateractam.)
The Station at St Paul John 2009
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In his excellent and thought-provoking address about humanities and philanthropy (Australian Book Review, June), Professor Malcolm Gillies directs our attention to the concluding poem (Carmen xxx) in Book III of the Odes of Horace in the verse translation by John Conington, specifically to the phrase “… usque ego postera/Crescam laude recens …,” of which the fragment “postera crescam laude” has since 1854 served as the motto of my alma mater, the University of Melbourne.
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On Holy Thursday, it is said at all of the Hours, including Tenebrae, as far as, “usque ad mortem”; on Good Friday the words “mortem autem Crucis” are added, and on Holy Saturday the rest (“propter quod et Deus …”).
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One of these two openings is deeper than the other, for it was a favour granted only to persons of distinction to introduce their objects of piety (sanctuaria usque ad secundam cateractam.)
27 July -- Bl Titus Brandsma, O. Carm. John 2009
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Cuius est solum, eius est usque ad caelum et ad inferos.
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Cum autem simul communicari et inungi aliquam oportuerit. soror aliqua crucem portet. et frater socius sacram deferat unccionem: et primo fiat communio. deinde inunccio. et in isto casu semper remaneat conuentus in infirmaria usque ad complectionem officii.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Concerning such sacred endeavors, like praxis, theory and sapience, ab ovo usque ad mala the Ancient Greek hylozoists had generated and nurtured Science, Philosophy and Wisdom.
In the Middle East, Stop the Killing of Sophia and her Children Now! 2009
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+ Deus, docuisti me a iuventute mea + T.POST PENTECOSTEN + et usque in senectam et senium +
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