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Quisquis amat vitani hanc bene vivere, virere et illam,
A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium Richard Boyle Bernard
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There virere many curious Oriental books, anda fswMSS. which I sold to Dr.Letherland. '
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ... John Nichols, Samuel Bentley 1812
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If it were fo that the father or good man of the houfe had a mattrals, tr flock bed and flieets, « fack of chaff to reft his head upon, he thought himlelf to be as well lodged at the lord of the town« & o wdl virere they con - tented, that pillows (ikid they) were thought meet goldfmiths craft, though they be ever fo curious and very artificially forged.
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_nitescere_, _virere_, are used by Ovid and other writers to describe this gleaming of leaves, plants, trees, groves, and of the earth.
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877
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