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And I may speak, as a playwright who have killed my own heroine, and had my share of the plausus in the atro.
The Virginians 2006
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Nulli unquam principum in secundis agenti illos fictos plausus vel metus dedit, vel adulatio vendidit, quàm hic verissimos expressere fuga, carcer, theatrum et illa omnium funestissima securis, qua obstupe, fecit hostes moriens et cæsus triumphavit.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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And I may speak, as a playwright who have killed my own heroine, and had my share of the plausus in the atro.
The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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his dictis iterum sedit; fit plausus et ingens concilii clamor, qualis resonantibus olim exoritur caueis, quotiens crinitus ephebus80 aut rigidam Nioben aut flentem Troada fingit. protinus excitis iter inremeabile signis adripit infaustoque iubet bubone moueri agmina Mygdonias mox impletura uolucris.
A Council of War-and War Claudian 1912
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