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Procedentibus igitur nobis lux coeli minuebator paulatim et augebatur horror, quoniam propè nos vndique etiam sub pedibus nostris apparebant iacere cadauera mortuorum hominum penitùs defuncta: alia adhuc spirantia, et nonulla semiuiua, super quæ dum nos aliquando calcare contingeret, conquerebantur, ac dolorosè submurmurabant.
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Procedentibus igitur nobis lux coeli minuebator paulatim et augebatur horror, quoniam prop� nos vndique etiam sub pedibus nostris apparebant iacere cadauera mortuorum hominum penit鵶 defuncta: alia adhuc spirantia, et nonulla semiuiua, super qu� dum nos aliquando calcare contingeret, conquerebantur, ac doloros� submurmurabant.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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So in the vulgate we read "et spiritum calcantibus eam," -- calcare bearing the sense of "trample on," as in Juvenal, Sat.x. 86, "calcemus Caesaris hostem."
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"Theophilus, humilis presbyter, servus servorum Dei, indignus nomine et professione monachi, omnibus mentis desidiam animique vagationem utili manuum occupatione, et delectabili novitatum meditatione declinare et calcare volentibus, retributionem coelestis præmii!"
On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859
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O. galea acuta erecta, calcare conico porrecto, peta interioribus retuiisy labello oblongo acuto carlxia Swartz act» holm i8oo«; t;. fiio.
Caroli a Linné species plantarum; exhibentes plantas rite cognitas ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas Willdenow, Karl Ludwig, 1765-1812. ed 1797
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O. radicibuf palmatis, labello obtufe trifido, concolo - re, calcare germine breviori.
Caroli a Linné species plantarum; exhibentes plantas rite cognitas ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas Willdenow, Karl Ludwig, 1765-1812. ed 1797
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D. galea acuta 'erecta, calcare conico nutante, labello liiieari obtufo, caule fubbifloro.
Caroli a Linné species plantarum; exhibentes plantas rite cognitas ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas Willdenow, Karl Ludwig, 1765-1812. ed 1797
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D. gaiea obtufa erecta, calcare fubulato germine longio - re nutante, labello lanceolato obtufo, fpica laxa, foliis enfiformibus.
Caroli a Linné species plantarum; exhibentes plantas rite cognitas ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas Willdenow, Karl Ludwig, 1765-1812. ed 1797
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L. petalis patentissimis: labio dependente, super Spectabile. genitalia convoluto; apice expanso, undulato, re - tuso cumacumine; disco 2-carinato, pubescente: calcare brevissimo.
Prodromus stirpium in horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium Richard Anthony Salisbury 1796
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Si poft nos pu - rificanda putatis omnia, lavate & aquam, fi pot£ - ftis: aut fi veftigia (ut fupradiximus) noftra efTe vo - bis videntur polluta, fufficeret terra: ur quid & pa - rietes lavare voluiftis, in quibus humana non poflunt poni veftigia? parietes non calcare, fed tantum vi - dere potuimus.
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