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[76] Facciolatus thus defines the Phallus: "penis ligneus, vel vitreus, vel coriaceus, quem in Bacchi festis plaustro impositum per rura et urbes magno honore circumferebant."
The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey
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A little shrimp-like animal (Erichthus vitreus) caught on the
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 George Grey 1855
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(Erichthus vitreus) * covered with a shield: we had caught a similar one on the 12th of November 1837.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855
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Sic perinde, qui iolet vitreus de afpera arteria mucus excreari, idem a convulfiva tufli, abfque rnorbo etiam ex fumi ftimuio, aut illapfo alieno corpufculo nata, fubito excuti - tur, neque naturam morando mutare potuit, aquula mera eft.
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Johnson, in his verses entitled, In Rivum a Mola Stoana Lichfeldiae diffluentem (Works, i. 163), writes: ” 'Errat adhuc vitreus per prata virentia rivus,
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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