sente

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++If of message forthe thou be sente, 728

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  • Entre as brumas da memória, Ó Pátria, sente-se a voz Dos teus egrégios avós, Que há-de guiar-te à vitória! —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Par la présente, je désire vous informer que je prends ma retraite à titre de Bibliothécaire et Archiviste du Canada le 24 avril 2009. —  Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
  • "Rege prćsente, pedes ejus tergente post extremam unctionem propriis manibus,"--words which can only be translated so as to represent the King, "after extreme unction wiping the feet" of the Bishop,--the Editor of that work, by the careless blunder of an amanuensis, or some unaccountable accident, is made to render by the strange sentence, "_covering his feet with extreme unction;" and he is then led, as a comment upon that text, to observe, that "the Bishop received from Henry's own hand the last offices of religion_." —  Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth
  • 1139 M76 Attempted negotiations between Stephen and Matilda, May, 1140 113 "Eodem anno in Pentecoste resedit rex Londoniæ in Turri, episcopo tantum modo Sagiensi præsente: ceteri vel fastidierunt vel timuerunt venire. —  London and the Kingdom - Volume I
  • Also the guydes that are sente, ought to be kepte with hope of rewarde, and feare of paine. —  Machiavelli, Volume I
 

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  1. Sotho (Sesotho), from English cent.
 

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