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  • Laments Conners: "I’m not even familiar with all of the Web vernacula, but we have modern clients who need modern relationships."

    The 10 Essentials Of Any Effective Web Site 2010

  • Contra eos qui lingua vulgari et vernacula remedia et medicamenta praescribunt, et quibusvis communia faciunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • For sounds in winter nights, and often in winter days, I heard the forlorn but melodious note of a hooting owl indefinitely far; such a sound as the frozen earth would yield if struck with a suitable plectrum, the very lingua vernacula of Walden Wood, and quite familiar to me at last, though I never saw the bird while it was making it.

    Walden 2004

  • Speaking in the Shona vernacula, Mugabe acknowledged that the civil servants 'salaries were very low and said it was understandable for them to grow impatient, since they had had long periods of hardships.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • It would exhaust the Latin and Greek languages, if they were used, and make the _lingua vernacula_ flag.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various

  • For sounds in winter nights, and often in winter days, I heard the forlorn but melodious note of a hooting owl indefinitely far; such a sound as the frozen earth would yield if struck with a suitable plectrum, the very _lingua vernacula_ of Walden Wood, and quite familiar to me at last, though I never saw the bird while it was making it.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • Epistola contra decretum quoddam episcoporum in Scotia, quod prohibet legere Novi Testamenti libros lingua vernacula. '

    The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics Alexander F. Mitchell

  • Instrumentum Vetus Hebraea lingua (antiqua Dei populo nempe vernacula) Novum autem Graeca: [11304] 1

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • [Greek: daimonios] imposito, abstinui antequam tractatulum sufficienter inconcinnum lingua vernacula perfeceram.

    The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855

  • Nec ab isto labore, δαιμονίως imposito, abstinui antequam tractatulum sufficienter inconcinnum lingua vernacula perfeceram.

    The Biglow Papers James Russell Lowell 1855

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