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  • (Collationes de septem donis Spiritus sancti), Lent of 1268;

    Amputee 2009

  • Vestium splendore et elegantia ambitione incessus, donis, cantilenis, &c. gratiam adipisci.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Note 56: Howlett, 435; Appleby, 64: "Non ibi continuum residebat ad opus nec magnum aliquid semel sinebatur explere, ne prouisam sibi cedem probaret cohabitatio, et ut pro modico labore melius ibi quam pro multo alibi remuneratus, domum demonis donis eius et dolis illectus libentius frequentaret."

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

  • Quo majoribus me donis probatiabat, eo pejoribus illum modis tractabam, ne basium impetravis, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Et sciatis me quandoque in tempore opportuno ab eis interrogasse de his signis, qui responderunt quòd inclinare caput Domino ad illius horæ momentum, foret confirmatio omnibus diebus vitæ suæ, ad obediendum ipsi et fidelitatem obseruandam imperio, nec posse corrumpi promissionibus siue donis, quódque digitum in auricula imponere, obturatio est auditus contra omnia

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Maxime autem ab imperatore donis varijs & muneribus pretiosis honoratus sum, tam in vasis aureis & argenteis, quam in pallijs & vestibus valde pretiosis.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Et sciatis me quandoque in tempore opportuno ab eis interrogasse de his signis, qui responderunt qu騞 inclinare caput Domino ad illius hor� momentum, foret confirmatio omnibus diebus vit� su�, ad obediendum ipsi et fidelitatem obseruandam imperio, nec posse corrumpi promissionibus siue donis, qu骴que digitum in auricula imponere, obturatio est auditus contra omnia

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Conrado erat, scilicet omnes principes gentium a monte Gargano, vsque ad istum proximum Mare: qui omnes me & honorifice suscepere, & magnificis donis honorauere.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Second Statute of Westminster (De donis conditionalibus, 1285) perpetuated feudal entail (conditional grants of lands) and led to the later law of trusts.

    1272-1307 2001

  • Whatever's going down, it's between families, the Leonfortes and the Gol - donis.

    Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995

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