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Tandem vnam viam sub terra fecerunt, et prosiluerunt in ciuitatem, et alij tentabant incendere ciuitatem, alij pugnabant.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Crasso consulibus [196] tribunicia potestas restituta est, homines adolescentes summam potestatem nacti, quibus aetas animusque ferox erat, coepere senatum criminando plebem exagitare, dein largiundo atque pollicitando magis incendere; ita ipsi clari potentesque fieri.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Per eas se Catilina credebat posse servitia urbana sollicitare, urbem incendere, viros earum vel adjungere sibi vel interficere.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Admiralio authores fuimus syluas incendere, quo ad inspiciendam regionem spacium pateret: nec displicebat illi consilium, si non magnum incommodum allaturum videretur.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Nos Admiralio authores fuimus syluas incendere, quo ad inspiciendam regionem spatium pateret; nec displicebat illi consilium, si non magnum incommodum allaturum videretur.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Qui captivam hominis voluntatem invexere, qui christiana funebria sustulere, qui Divorum reliquias incendere, sintne placabiles
Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities Edmund Campion 1560
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At the other end of the temperature scale, young people are likely to feel burned up where one of their elders would be incensed, from Latin incendere, ` to set on fire. '
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Hic jam galbaneos fuadebo incendere odoresj Mellaque arundineis inferre canalibus ultro»
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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To give our young readers some preparatory information about certain frequently-recurring peculiarities of Sallust's style, we may remark that the omission of the personal pronoun in the construction of the accusative with the infinitive, as well as the omission of the auxiliary verb _est_, and the frequent use of the infinitive instead of a dependent clause -- for example, _hortatur dicere, res postulat exponere, conjuravere patriam incendere_, and many similar expressions -- arise from his desire to be brief and concise.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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He raised his eyes to heaven and said, as if praying (but I was sure he was quoting a page of his great book on the tree of life): "Quorum primus seraphico calculo purgatus et ardore celico inflammatus totum incendere videbatur.
The Name of the Rose Eco, Umberto 1980
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