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The testimony of Sauvages may also be adduced, who says, 'Novi familiam cujus infantes circa sextum ætatis annum omnes periere ex hoc morbo, _Scrofula huic effusioni ansam præbente_.'
Remarks on the Subject of Lactation Edward Morton
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Quid quod praefatione praemunierim libellum, qua conor omnem offendiculi ansam praecidere?
Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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These animals are said to have been of infinite use to the antient Egyptians in determining times and seasons; for it seems they were, in some particular functions, the most accurate and punctual of any creatures upon earth: [52] Per æquinoctia enim duodecies in die urinam reddere, et in nocte [53] compertus (Cunocephalus), æquali interstitio servato, Trismegisto ansam dedit diem dividendi in duodecim partes æquales.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) Jacob Bryant 1759
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As Elizabeth Fox '09, who had just started working as nutrition training coordinator for GHESKIO a few days before the earthquake, wrote in the Cornell Daily Sun last week, "Men anpil, chay pa lou; ansam nou kapab."
Stories from The Sun David J. Skorton 2010
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Errori ansam olim dedit catalogos consolom Dionia libro LV. praefixos., io qoo ad annom V« C. 764
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