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Silva and Somner reported 204 vascular plant species in a transect of 50 by 450 meters in Rio de Janeiro State.
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[133] Somner, 294 and 295; see also Leland Scriptor.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather
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We should remember that Somner has _ge-lær_, void, empty, _vacuus_; and
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A paper preserved in the Chapter library, in the writing of Somner, the great antiquarian scholar, describes the state in which the fabric of the cathedral was left, at the time of the Restoration of King Charles II., in 1660.
The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.]. Hartley Withers 1908
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Thus wrote Somner in A.D. 1640: the dilapidated throne of which he speaks was replaced, in A.D. 1704, by a splendid throne with a tall Corinthian canopy, and decorated with carving by Grinling Gibbons, the gift of
The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.]. Hartley Withers 1908
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This latter meaning has been chosen by the authors of the Anglo-Saxon dictionaries, notably Somner, Lye, and
Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London John Cunningham Geikie 1865
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Richardson gives the same etymology, referring to Somner.
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Lye said they were _quasi_ good-father and good-mother; Somner, that they were the Anglo-Saxon
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She was the youngest child of William Dollimore and Eva Somner.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Nora Ryell 2011
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She was the youngest child of William Dollimore and Eva Somner.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Nora Ryell 2011
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