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  • Exiturus fascia uxoris pectus alligabat, nec momento praeesentia ejus carere poterat, potumque non hauriebat nisi praegustatum labris ejus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Paricla, damna, exilia peregre rediens semper cogitet, aut filii peccatum, aut uxoris mortem, aut morbum filiae, communia esse haec: fieri posse, ut ne quid animo sit novum.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quercus uxoris, P. ayacahuite and Cupressus lindleyi.

    Sierra Madre del Sur pine-oak forests 2007

  • Fingebam honestatem plusquam virginis vestalis, intuebar oculis uxoris, addebam gestus, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Speciem uxoris supra modum extollens, fecit ut illam nudam coram aspiceret.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Phaerus Aegipti rex captus oculis per decennium, oraculum consuluit de uxoris pudicitia.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • What is to be said of the passage in which he recommends the bishops to have one wife? — “Unius uxoris virum.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Phaerus Aegypti rex de caecitate oraculum consulens, visum ei rediturum accepit, si oculos abluisset lotio mulieris quae aliorum virorum esset expers; uxoris urinam expertus nihil profecit, et aliarum frustra, eas omnes (ea excepta per quam curatus fuit) unum in locum coactas concremavit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [6215] Nevisanus, si vitium uxoris corrigi non potest, ferendum est: if it may not be helped, it must be endured.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Et fuit, antequam ipse complevisset loqui, ecce, Ribca egrediebatur, quae nata erat Bethuel filio Milchah uxoris Nachor fratris Abraham, et hydria ejus erat super humerum ejus.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

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