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  • Other species, like the batwinged fly (Exul singularis), have dark coloration to maximize solar heat.

    Southland montane grasslands 2008

  • Porro apud Regem tenetur bos singularis, cuius custos diligentissimè vrinam in uase aureo accipit simpliciter, et de fimo in vase consimili: et quotidie venit summus eorum prælatus quem dicunt Archiprotoplaustum, offert personaliter in prædictis preciosis vasis, Domino Regi de bouis vrina et fimo, atque in vrina, quam appellant Gaul, tingens manus, defricit, et perungit

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Cuius tam singularis in nos beneficij meritum, e� erit celsitudini vestr� min鵶 poenitendum, qu� sunt merces ill�, quibus regna nostra abundant, et aliorum principum ditiones egent, tam humanis vsibus comod� t醡que necessari�, nulla gens vt sit, qu� eis carere queat, proptere醧ue longissimis, difficillim韘que itineribus conquisitis non vehementer gaudeat.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Porro apud Regem tenetur bos singularis, cuius custos diligentissim� vrinam in uase aureo accipit simpliciter, et de fimo in vase consimili: et quotidie venit summus eorum pr鎙atus quem dicunt Archiprotoplaustum, offert personaliter in pr鎑ictis preciosis vasis, Domino Regi de bouis vrina et fimo, atque in vrina, quam appellant Gaul, tingens manus, defricit, et perungit

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Venetis, atque adeo regis Romanorum subditis largita vnquam aut donata fuit, celsitudinem vestram rogamus ne tam singularis beneficenti� laus in tam angustis terminis duorum aut trium hominum concludatur, sed ad vniuersos subditos nostrus diffusa, propagat醧ue, celsitudinis vestr� beneficium e� reddat augustius, qu� eiusdem donatio lati鵶 patebit, et ad plures pertinebit.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • _ "Josephus Barnius, Petiolensis, vir in jactando repercutiendoque folle singularis, qui ob robur ingens maximamque artis peritiam, et collusores ubique devictos, Terræmotus formidabili cognomento dictus est."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various

  • Whiting "_Homo sane candidissimus et amicus meus singularis_," but he afterwards scored the line with his pen.

    Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather

  • As Occam urged: "Quælibet res singularis seipsa est singularis, unum per se"; hence dispute about an internal principle of individuation is futile.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • In 1763 he published his famous work "Justini Febronii jurisconsulti de statu Ecclesiæ et legitimâ potestate Romani pontificis liber singularis", which aroused so much controversy (see FEBRONIANISM).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • The last glimpse we get of Carvajal is at Antwerp in 1548, at which time he brought out the third edition of his "Theologicarum sententiarum liber singularis".

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

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