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  • Qui rationem corporis non habent, sed cogunt mortalem immortali, terrestrem aethereae aequalem praestare industriam: Caeterum ut Camelo usu venit, quod ei bos praedixerat, cum eidem servirent domino et parte oneris levare illum Camelus recusasset, paulo post et ipsius curem, et totum onus cogeretur gestare (quod mortuo bove impletum) Ita animo quoque contingit, dum defatigato corpori, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Cease, prayce, storywalkering around with gestare romano-verum he swinking about is they think and plan unrawil what.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • 'Cultus gestare decoros vix nuribus rapuere mares'; and ll.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Amurathes, quamvis a nobis alienus, vim sanctam illarum expertus solet eas gestare; e morbo namque hujusmodi interdum laborat.

    Notes and Queries, Number 07, December 15, 1849 Various

  • Decet e {n} im generosoru {m} filios, apte inflare cornu, perite uenari, accipitre {m} pulchre gestare & educare.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • J-um patentium mlhi in hac parte concessarum, quibus me principaiem Harai ■ dum et Armorum Regem totius Regni cui Kibernias constituit et dsputavlt, con - tessi et ordonavi, sicut per praesentes conccdo et ordino eidem Adamo Loftus ipsum Hzreoesq. sues arma sequentia gestare et portare, viz. crucem auratam guttis sanguinis aspersam inter quatuor pellicanos pcctora sua vulneiMntcs et san - gulneni suum fundentes In carnpo azurato.

    Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812

  • Egoque dictus Ulster Armorum Rex, hanc suam petitionem fore justam et rationi corisonantem debite consideravi, auctcri - tateDominse nostras Reginrs qua in hac parte fungor, et virtute suarum litera - rum patentium mihi in hac parte concessaruriij quibus me principalem Heral - dum et Armorum Regem totius Regni sui Hiberniae constituit et deputavit, con - cessi et ordonavi, sicut per praesentes concede et ordino eidem Adamo Loftus ipsum Haeredesq. suos arma sequnitia gestare et portaie, viz. crucem auratam guttis sanguinis aspersam inter quatuor pellicanos pectora sua vulnerantcs et san - guinen. suum fundentes in C2mpo azurato.

    Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812

  • Goddesses, "was represented as wearing a mural crown --" coronamque turritam gestare dicitur "(Albricus Phil.,

    The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

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