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  • There are three islands so little distant from each other, that they appear but one; for which reason the Chinese, in their language, call them Samceu; a word composed of sam, which signifies three, and ceu, which is to say an island.

    The Works of John Dryden Dryden, John, 1631-1700 1808

  • Inter terricolas cœli colasque victores, hinc pecum, inde donorum: qui ultro citroque portant, hinc petitiones, inde suppetias: ceu quidam utriusque interpretes, et salutigeri.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Inter illam igitur et illum, ceu inter ouem et lupum prima fronte fortissimum, pro tercio duellum cerneres.

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Bible by B+# G+D+ Venit turma, ceu exercitus -- a troop or army cometh.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • From the fact that the vital fluid is born with the body, that it grows, develops, and declines along with it, Lucretius infers that the fluid must also be dissolved simultaneously with the body, scattered into the air like smoke: — "ergo dissolvi quoque convenit omnem animai naturam, ceu fumus, in altas aëris auras; quandoquidem gigni pariter pariterque videmus crescere et, ut docui, simul ævo fessa fatisci."

    Lunheng 1962

  • "_Claritatem facit inunctis oculis delachrymationemque, ceu fumus, unde nomen_."

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • Of these diphthongs EU occurs, -- except in Greek words, -- only in _heus, heu, eheu_; in _seu, ceu, neu_.

    The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord

  • O longum memoranda dies! quae mente reporto gaudia, quam lassos per tot miracula uisus! ingenium quam mite solo! quae forma beatis15 ante manus artemque locis! non largius usquam indulsit natura sibi. nemora alta citatis incubuere uadis; fallax responsat imago frondibus, et longas eadem fugit umbra per undas. ipse Anien (miranda fides) infraque superque20 spumeus hic tumidam rabiem saxosaque ponit murmura, ceu placidi ueritus turbare Vopisci

    A Villa at Tibur 1912

  • Separat item Deus nos baptismi symbolo ab omnibus alienis religionibus et populis, et sibi consecrat ceu peculium: nos itaque, dum baptizamur, confitemur fidem nostram et obstringimur Deo ad obedientiam et mortificationem carnis vitaeque novitatem, adeoque inscribimur in sanctam Christi militiam, ut toto vitae cursu pugnemus contra mundum, et Satanam, atque carnem propriam.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Quod Christus pro omnibus hominibus mortuus sit, et ceu agnus

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

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