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  • Tuque comploras Dominum, crucique impetu flagrans pietatis astas;

    July 22, The Feast of St. Mary Magdalene bls 2008

  • Stromatum l. post captam Trojam cum impetu ferretur, ad occidendam Helenam, stupore adeo pulchritudinis correptus ut ferrum excideret, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Magno conatu et impetu moventur, super eodem centro rotati, non proficiunt, nec ad finem perveniunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Calefactio et ebullitio per venae incisionem, magis saepe incitatur et augetur, majore impetu humores per corpus discurrunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • † [Note: He often indulged himself in every species of pleasantry and wit.] and, in another, sed accipitris more e conspectu aliquando astantium sublimi se protrahens volatu, in praedam miro impetu descendebat.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • Ex hoc reditur per valles Bokar fertiles et pro pascendis pecorum gregibus exuberantes: et intratur in montana vbi copiositas est fontium qui effluunt impetu de Libano.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Post hæc incontinenti sponte in puluerem voluebantur, sícque puluis admixtus aquæ super eos corugelabatur, et vt ita pluries fecerunt, glacie super eos depressata, cum impetu magno contra Tartaros ad pugnam conuenerunt.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • Minoritam quendam Anglum Oxonieasem Mathematicum in eas insulas venisse, ipsisque relictis ad vlteriora arte Magica profectu descripsisse omnia, & Astrolabio dimensum esse in hanc subiectam formam fer�, vti ex Iacobo collegimus, Euripos illos quatuor dicebat tanto impetu ad interiorem voraginem rapi, vt naues semel ingress� nullo vento retroagi possent, neque ver� vnquam tantam ibi ventum esse, vt mol� frumentari� circumagend� sufficiat.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Post h鎐 incontinenti sponte in puluerem voluebantur, s韈que puluis admixtus aqu� super eos corugelabatur, et vt ita pluries fecerunt, glacie super eos depressata, cum impetu magno contra Tartaros ad pugnam conuenerunt.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Hecl� flamma nec stuppam lucernarum luminibus aptissimam adurit, neque aqua extinguitur: E髊ue impetu, quo apud nos machinis bellicis, globi eijciuntur, illinc lapides magni in aera emittuntur, ex frigoris & ignis & sulphuris commixtione.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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