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Versus Austrum hinc in mari Oceano, habetur inter alias insulas vna, vbi crudelibus quibusdam mulieribus nascitur in oculis lapis rarus, et malus, quæ si per iram respexerint hominem, more
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Versus Austrum hinc in mari Oceano, habetur inter alias insulas vna, vbi crudelibus quibusdam mulieribus nascitur in oculis lapis rarus, et malus, qu� si per iram respexerint hominem, more
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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(Ch. 56) Instituta prioris potentiae commutat, prohibet coetus salutantium, vitat comitantis, rarus per urbem, quasi valetudine infensa aut sapientiae studiis domi attineretur. '
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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But as Lillie squatted on the poop surrounded by an inner ring of jars and tangled masses of the catch, and an outer ring of curious scientists, pseudo-scientists and seamen, no find pleased him so much as the frequent discovery of pieces of Cephalodiscus rarus, of which even now there are but some four jars full in the world.
The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922
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"Liber valde quidem rarus," as Vogt intimates, I will not pretend to determine.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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The bibliographical notices are frequent and full; and saving that the words "rarus, rarior, et rarissimus," are sometimes too profusely bestowed, nothing seems to be wanting to render this a very first rate acquisition to the collector's library.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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Mencken_, p. 10, it is thus loftily described: "Catalogus per-rarus rarissimis libris superbiens."
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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Idem nuraus r*jl tutwnis a Traiano fa&ae folfra habet epigraphen, eiufdemque mi nificentiae caufa rarus eft: IMl CAES.
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Silanus, quocumque alio de sanguine, rarus civis et egregius patriae contingis ovanti (viii.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Quaest. ', vii., 18); but we can ony see through the rays of the tail, and not through the body of the comet itself:' non in ea parte qua sidus ipsum est spissi et solidi ignis, sed qua rarus splendor occurrit et in crines dispergitur.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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