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  • O lympha, fons amoris, Qui puro Salvatoris E corde profluis;

    The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book Various

  • These aromatics likewise evacuate serum from the blood, promote its circulation, and attenuate the coagulations of chyle, lympha, and succus nervosus.

    A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves Hugh Smith

  • Phlegethontide corpus in unda ', and _Aen_ XII 420' _fouit_ ea uulnus lympha longaeuus Iapyx '.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • "_Vidit et erubuit lympha pudica Deum_ [895]," and I told you of another fine line in Camden's _Remains_, an eulogy upon one of our Kings, who was succeeded by his son, a prince of equal merit: --

    Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767

  • "Vidit et erubuit lympha pudica DEUM," and I told you of another fine line in Camden's Remains, an eulogy upon one of our Kings, who was succeeded by his son, a prince of equal merit: --

    Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood James Boswell 1767

  • Dudum (d), iterumque nuper (e), a Jympha - ticis vafis degenerantibus hydatides nafci fcriptum eft, ut inter duo valvularum conjugatarum juga inclufa lympha fenfim vafculi pirietes extrorfum urgeret, do - nec rotundse bullae faciem induerent: ad quam fententiam haclenus Godofredus Bidlco (f) acceflit, ut hydatides perinde etiam a lympha, five a nutritio humore in arreriarum venarumque intervalla effufo, nafci admitteret (g).

    Elementa physiologiae corporis humani .. 1776

  • Bilis de hepate lympha? fimilis efrluit (w): eadem in folliculo felleo ita craffefcit, ut fila trahat, poftquam in eo receptaculo aliquandiu quievit.

    Elementa physiologiae corporis humani .. 1776

  • These united qualities correct acids in the stomach, cleanse the lungs, and open obstructions in the glands caused by coagulated serum; and the saline pungent oil altering the acids in the glands of the brain, by correcting and attenuating its lympha and succus nervosus, produces the same effect; for the lympha and nervous juice are, like other glandulous humours, liable to acidity and stagnation; therefore these aromatics, by exciting their motion and correcting their acidities, render the liquids of the nerves more volatile, and are therefore justly termed cephalics.

    A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves Hugh Smith

  • mixtaque securo est sobria lympha mero. rure terunt messis, calidi cum sideris aestu

    A Rural Festival Tibullus 1912

  • lympha fugax trepidare riuo? huc uina et unguenta et nimium breuis flores amoenae ferre iube rosae,

    Mens Aequa Horace 1912

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