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Et nudato prius toto illo loco à graminibus cum cespite figitur ibi tentorium, in quo velut in solio regali de ligno corpus defuncti residens collocatur, paraturque mensa plena coram eo cibarijs præciosis, et potu de lacte iumentorum.
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At ipsas domus, seu ipsa hominum domicilia, antiquitus quidem satis magnific� et sumptuos�, quoad huius terr� fert conditio, ligno, cespite et saxis habuerunt
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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At ipsas domus, seu ipsa hominum domicilia, antiquitus quidem satis magnificè et sumptuosè, quoad huius terræ fert conditio, ligno, cespite et saxis habuerunt
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Et nudato prius toto illo loco � graminibus cum cespite figitur ibi tentorium, in quo velut in solio regali de ligno corpus defuncti residens collocatur, paraturque mensa plena coram eo cibarijs pr鎐iosis, et potu de lacte iumentorum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Perchè la sua voce ... sarebbe un cespite di rendita, via.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Ernani appears upon a neighboring height and announces himself in a despondent aria ( "Come rugiada al cespite").
The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876
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In all these ceremonies they burn on the spot a little gum benzoin -- Et acerra thuris plena, positusque carbo in cespite vivo.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795
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In his aria "Come rugiada al cespite" [ "As falling dew upon the flower"] Enrnai details the expected fate of Elvira and his own lamentable future without her presence.
Opera Today 2009
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(vili cespite), and afterwards of rough wood and twigs (de lignis informibus et virgulis).
Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840
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[Note: I deem it fitting that the reader should be apprised that this limitary boundary between the conterminous heritable property of his honour the Laird of Gandercleugh, and his honour the Laird of Gusedub, was to have been in fashion an agger, or rather murus of uncemented granite, called by the vulgar a drystane dyke, surmounted, or coped, cespite viridi, i.e. with a sodturf.
Old Mortality 2004
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