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Hence his threefold distribution of sodomy; (1) Peripheric or anatomical, caused by an unusual distribution of the nerves and their hyperæsthesia; (2) Luxurious, when love a tergo is preferred on account of the narrowness of the passage; and (3) the Psychical.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The vis a tergo was their only resort; and secondly, if properly applied, the methods are unexcelled and correct, both upon mechanical and physiological principles.

Labor Among Primitive Peoples 1884

Clazomenae = the buttocks, also a sotadic disease, so called from the Ionian city devoted to Aversa Venus; also used of a pathic, — et tergo femina pube vir est.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

God the avenger, as [6731] David terms him, ultor a tergo Deus, his wrath is apprehended of a guilty, soul, as by Saul and Judas, which the poets expressed by Adrastia, or Nemesis:

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

As [5490] he that desired of his enemy now dying, to lay him with his face upward, ne amasius videret eum a tergo vulneratum, lest his sweetheart should say he was a coward.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

But poets and papists may go together for fabulous tales; let them free their own credits: howsoever they feign of their Nemesis, and of their saints, or by the devil's means may be deluded; we find it true, that ultor a tergo Deus,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Jane a tergo quem nulla ciconia pinsit, Antevorta and

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Daemonum cernuntur et audiuntur ibi frequentes illusiones, unde viatoribus cavendum ne ce dissocient, aut a tergo maneant, voces enim fingunt sociorum, ut a recto itinere abducant, &c. 1214.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

But when you find yourself a fronte praecipitium a tergo lupi, all the smarts in the world won't help, savvy?

Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Wednesday 2006

And the vicar having thoroughly warmed himself, as far as this might be done by facing the fire, turned round and began the operation a tergo.

Framley Parsonage 2004