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  • Recondite interests percolated at Urbino as early as the 1470s.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • No one at Screwstown had ever seen these Digbies: they lay amidst the Far -- the Recondite -- even to the wife of Colonel Pompley's bosom.

    Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 Various

  • 'Recondite Forms' because -- But you will understand it better after you have played it.

    Harper's Young People, November 18, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Various

  • Recondite sources have not always been referred to, in order not to overload a text which at best is apt to tax the reader's powers of attention.

    Rashi Liber, Maurice 1906

  • 'Recondite, my dear,' said Aunt Julia, who never pretended not to know when a shaft had been planted.

    Franklin Kane Anne Douglas Sedgwick 1904

  • Recondite analytical methods received a confirmation brilliant and intelligible even to the minds of the vulgar, and emerged from the patient solitude of the study to enjoy an hour of clamorous triumph.

    A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874

  • Lord Lumley, Bishop Hacket says, 'did pursue Recondite Learning as much as any of his Honourable Rank in those Times, and was the owner of a most precious Library, the search and collection of Mr. Humfry

    English Book Collectors William Younger Fletcher 1871

  • Recondite scholars in the physical beauty of the Greeks, from Boston, were there; fair women from Washington, whose charms make the reputation of many a newspaper correspondent; spirited stars of official and diplomatic life, who have moments of longing to shine in some more languorous material paradise, had made a hasty flitting to be present at the ceremony, sustained by

    The Golden House Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • Recondite scholars in the physical beauty of the Greeks, from Boston, were there; fair women from

    The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • No one at Screwstown had ever seen these Digbies: they lay amidst the Far, the Recondite, -- even to the wife of Colonel Pompley's bosom.

    My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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