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  • If you have a hippopotamus major in your brain, you are no ape, though you had four hands, no feet, and were more apish than the apes of all aperies.

    The Water Babies 2007

  • Domine, labia mea aperies: et os meum annuntiabit laudem tuam.

    The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book Various

  • "And when you come to me for Matins," he added, "don't come into the cell, but only say in a loud voice, 'Domine, labia mea aperies;' and if I answer, 'Et os meum annuntiabit laudem tuam,' you will come in, otherwise you will go back."

    The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Father Candide Chalippe

  • Some days after the opening of the book of the Gospel, Leo had come at midnight to say aloud, at the door of Francis 'cell, "Domine labia mea aperies," according to the order he had received; and receiving no reply, he had the curiosity to advance a step further, and to look through the chinks of the door, to see what was going on.

    The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Father Candide Chalippe

  • Some days after the opening of the book of the Gospel, Leo had come at midnight to say aloud, at the door of Francis 'cell, “Domine labia mea aperies,” according to the order he had received; and receiving no reply, he had the curiosity to advance a step further, and to look through the chinks of the door, to see what was going on.

    The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Chalippe, Father Candide 1917

  • Office; in the verse "Domine labia mea aperies", etc., with which the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • In the Roman Rite the "Deus in adjutorium" is preceded in Matins by the "Domine labia mea aperies", whilst in the monastic Breviary the order is reversed.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • London ones, though by no means so abominable even, one's company here being mainly God's sky and earth, not cockneydom with its slums, enchanted aperies and infernalries.

    Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

  • _Domine labia mea aperies; _ when, if an answer came, he might enter and say matins with his master.

    Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe 1879

  • I think thou art mad! with _Domine, labia aperies_.

    A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

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