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& hanc quaeftionem alias prolixe tradta verimus Diflfert*
Theologia dogmatico-moralis secundum ordinem catechismi Concilii Tridentini 1768
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Abondant sans être prolixe, naturel et familier sans être lâche ni trivial, il ne manque jamais de cette elegance qui résulte de la facilité, et qui présente je ne sais quel mélange de la naïveté de Perrault et de la bonhomie de La Fontaine.
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But the Juillard Dictionnaire Inverse de la Langue Française lists twenty rhymes, among them bombyx, hélix, prolixe, and strix; and we may add the great name of Vercingétorix.
Rhymes with 'IX' Comenetz, Michael 1999
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God knoweth whether they renewed their pastime begon the daye of their mariage, but fearing to be taken, they began to playe the comedie, the actes whereof were very long, and the scrolle of their miseries to prolixe to carie, before they came to the catastrope and ende of their comicall action.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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[Footnote 82: Paravimus etiam nocturnis vigiliis mechanicas lucernas, conservatrices illuminantium flammarum, ipsas sibi nutrientes incendium, quae humano ministerio cessante, prolixe custodiant uberrimi luminis abundantissimam claritatem; ubi olei pinguedo non deficit, quamvis flammis ardentibus jugitor torreatur.] [Sidenote: Relation to the Benedictine Rule.]
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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Etenim natali suo, accitis ad geniale epulum amicis, postquam prolixe de poeticæ laudibus super mensam disputaverat; ostensurum se aiebat a cæna, quo tandem modo laudari poesim deceret: Mox aferri jubebat
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06 John Dryden 1665
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Vjdcqvam apte £cqoaUn non prolixe Vir. piiiuf deicribat pefitUntiamy Geor.
Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera Horace, Ludovicus Desprez, André Dacier 1793
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De hac Arabia prolixe egi in meis numis Tet.p. 3q5.
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Fateor, rerain quis tantom sibi samat, ut aadeat omniam instito - lorvm caosam probabilem adferre ea ae« tate, qoa,. qoidquid majores sanxere, atqae ipsa etiam honorum significatia misere foit perturbata et confasai qoo* rom si petas. exempla, lege,. qaae ia hojos Philippi, tam et Salonini moneta B« prolixe disseram.
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De fenfu ejus et confiUo prolixe egerunt Bochartus in Hierot.
Pentateuchus ex recensione textus hebraei et versionum antiquarum latine versus notisque philologicis [microform] Dathe, Johann August, 1731-1791, ed 1791
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