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Suetonius gives nearly the same account in vita Vesp.
Of Miracles. Part II 1909
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_Harpiocephalus_ and _Murina_ must be united in a single genus; but finding afterwards that Gray had founded _Murina_ on a specimen of what he believed to be _Vesp. suillus_ (Temm.), but which was in reality a specimen of a very different species from Darjeeling, belonging to the same section of the genus as _Vespertilio harpia_
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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-- "Feet very small, included in the wing membrane nearly to the end of the toes; ears acutely pointed, shorter than the head; muzzle groved, nudish; face sharp; rostrum somewhat recurved; wholly sooty brown; a little smaller than _Vesp. formosa_."
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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Boddaert in 1785 termed it _Vesp. kerivoula_, and Gray afterwards took the second specific name for that of the genus, leaving the first as it is.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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Vesp and I, we work the printing-press together, an 'so order him to looward, not to taint our Otaheitans, that stink of ile at home, but I had 'em biled before I'd buy 'em, an' now they're vilets.
Foul Play Charles Reade 1849
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The first is in the Cotton library, Vesp.b. xiv. the second in the
The Lay of Marie Matilda Betham 1814
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Suetonius gives nearly the same account _in vita_ Vesp.
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding David Hume 1743
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8, Suetonius gives nearly the same account in vita Vesp.
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From its style of execution, its details of portraiture, and other features, it may be looked on as one of the earliest links between the two extremes of Oriental and Occidental Art. Another MS. in the British Museum (Vesp.
Illuminated Manuscripts John William Bradley 1873
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Hist. '1855), but there is some doubt about it, and it has been classed as a _Lasiurus_ and also with _Scot. ornatus_ and _Vesp. formosa_, but Jerdon thinks it a _distinct_ species.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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