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Above the hand Latinate script spelled out the words In Manibus Fortuna.
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009
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Above the hand Latinate script spelled out the words In Manibus Fortuna.
The Mortal Instruments: Book One: City of Bones Cassandra Clare 2007
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Agnes bent over, intent on the mystic "_Dis Manibus_" in old
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D.M.S. -- Diis Manibus Sacrum ( "Sacred to the Manes [of]")
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Occasionally a phrase which has become stale by constant use and has grown into a formula, is rarely found in any other form than that of its abbreviation e.g. D.M. for Diis Manibus, IHS for Jesus, just as we have kept R.I.P. for requiescat in pace.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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_Manibus o date lilia plenis_ (Oh! give lilies with full hands).
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The tomb and the inscription are purely pagan, as shown by the invocation to the infernal gods, Diis Manibus.
Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888
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From its source to its junction with the solitary Mississippi the Abbé had planted upon its conspicuous bluffs the ensigns of France, with tablets of lead bearing the fleur-de-lis and the proud inscription, "Manibus date lilia plenis," -- lilies destined, after a fierce struggle for empire, to be trampled into the earth by the feet of the victorious English.
The Golden Dog William Kirby 1861
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This Kesar-El-Ensara, together with the bas-relief, and the Latin inscription, copied by a Moor from a tomb-stone, beginning with the words "_Diis Manibus_," are more than sufficient evidence to prove that Ghadames was "colonized," as it was called, by the Romans, and probably earlier by the Greeks and Carthaginians.
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828
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Parva, ut Manibus II, 535. casta, puro animo oblata.
P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum libri VI. Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso, Gottlieb Erdmann Gierig 1812
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