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  • “At the period of the Voysins and the Brinvilliers, there were nothing but poisoners abroad; and against these, a court was expressly instituted, called ardente, because it condemned them to the flames.”

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete

  • “And in 1984 another eruption killed 200 people with a nuee ardente glowing cloud, a 300-kilometer-an-hour cloud of incandescent fragments and gas that roared down the mountain.”

    The Huffington Post: Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 1

  • “Elle devint si ardente et si pressante que jamais encore je n'avais prié ainsi: je n'avais plus l'impression d'être agenouillée sur le plancher et ne ressentais plus aucune douleur corporelle. je voulais cesser de prier, mais mon ange me dit: «Continue!”

    Les Anges et les Âmes du Purgatoire

  • “If I have to wear a pork dress for a wedding in a camera ardente, what chance does our marriage have?”

    Simon & Schuster: Holly Would Dream

  • “Lady Burton had the tomb fitted up with an altar and other accessories, so as to make it as much like a chapelle ardente as possible, while preserving its Eastern character.”

    The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton

  • “These duties occupied her fourteen weeks in all, and she worked every day early and late, the only break in her labours being her frequent visits to the chapelle ardente where the remains of her husband were reposing, preparatory to being carried to England.”

    The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton

  • “Abfall = Skene island dedicated to compost, recycling, junkyard ada = island, name of a Fling in the East Tendril aga (pronounced ah-gah) = stove/hearth, the center of every Manage; fueled by geothermal steam, it was never turned "off" and always had a cistern of simmering water for tea aggie (pronounced with a short a) = breeding woman ardente = brandy (followed by name of food used to distill it, as ardentecherry)”

    SKENE GLOSSARY (SKENE TO ENGLISH)

  • “Mais calor, o sol ardente que aquece os edifícios e nos deixa sedentos, incapazes de sequer falar.”

    Consolo

  • “A posteriori parte magni altaris monstratur locus, vbi Moysi apparuit Dominus in rubo ardente, ipsum rubum adhuc seruans, quem dum monachi intrant, semper se discalceant gratia illias verbi, quo Deus iussit Moysi ibidem,”

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville

  • “Nemo enim est apud nos tam temerariæ curiositatis, vt huius rei periculum, ardente monte, facere ansit, vel quod scire licuit, vnquam ausis fuerit.”

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas

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