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  • Sir Walpole was a jolly fellow, eager to seize and to spend money (alieni appetens, sui profusus, as Mr. Crawley would remark with a sigh), and in his day beloved by all the county for the constant drunkenness and hospitality which was maintained at

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • Animus audax, subdolus, varius, cujus rei libet [36] simulator ac dissimulator, alieni appetens, sui profusus, ardens in cupiditatibus; satis eloquentiae, sapientiae parum.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • _Alieni uppetens_ is ever their motto, but _sui profusus_ does always go with it.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

  • For, indeed, Jackeymo had been less thrifty of his apparel -- more _profusus sui_ -- than his master.

    The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various

  • By dint of a brazen assurance, a most obliging manner, and the lavish expenditure of money, "profusus sui alieni appetens" -- he ingratiated himself with nearly every southerner who visited Halifax although he was a coarse, ill-bred vulgarian, of no social standing in the community.

    The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner John Wilkinson

  • Sir Walpole was a jolly fellow, eager to seize and to spend money (“alieni appetens, sui profusus, ” as Mr. Crawley would remark with a sigh), and in his day beloved by all the county for the constant drunkenness and hospitality which was maintained at Queen’s Crawley.

    IX. Family Portraits 1917

  • The author ruit profusus, and the manager has to reduce the piece to feasible proportions, such as it ought to have assumed from the first.

    Alfred Tennyson 1842

  • For, indeed, Jackeymo had been less thrifty of his apparel, more profusus sui, than his master.

    My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • For, indeed, Jackeymo had been less thrifty of his apparel, more/profusus sui/, than his master.

    My Novel — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Walpole was a jolly fellow, eager to seize and to spend money (alieni appetens, sui profusus, as Mr. Crawley would remark with a sigh), and in his day beloved by all the county for the constant drunkenness and hospitality which was maintained at Queen's Crawley.

    Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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