Siste

Methought when I saw his trunk stretched forward, like a warning finger, that I heard a voice say, “Siste, Venator!”

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

_Siste, Viator_ (Stay, Traveler), continually used in churches by those small wits who thought that nothing could be good English which was not half Latin, and forgot that in our country the traveler must have stayed already to visit the sexton before he can possibly do so in compliance with the advice of the monument.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

The rector, Dr. Sly, who had been Mr. Bluebeard's tutor at college, wrote an epitaph in the most pompous yet pathetic Latin: "Siste, viator! moerens conjux, heu! quanto minus est cum reliquis versari quam tui meminisse"; in a word, everything that is usually said in epitaphs.

Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885

_Siste viator iter_ -- and part with poor Carlo -- for whom there are now no more little passing troubles -- no more little simple joys.

It Is Never Too Late to Mend Charles Reade 1849

I rather like the _Siste Viator_, -- yet will let you blot it out, -- it is as applicable as to any Roman Tomb, and more so than to ours, which are in enclosed places, where any 'Traveller,' if he either 'stop' or go, will presently have the constable upon him.

Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 Edward FitzGerald 1846

The city imposed $5,140 in fines but stayed an additional $7,200 in penalties as long as Siste complies with the agreement.

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The agreement stipulates that owner Samme Siste hire a consultant to supervise the operation.

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"Siste paulisper, my boy," said Mr Bang, as he stooped down, and skimmed off the green covering with his hand, disclosing the water below, pure and limpid as a crystal -- clear fountain.

Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812

"Siste Viator -- heroa calcas!" was the epitaph on the famous Count

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

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