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  • Inizialmente, doveva durare il doppio, ma spero di completarlo in futuro.

    No Fat Clips!!! : VINCENT HOUZE – Unfolding Systems 2008

  • Meanwhile I am off for home, partly walking, partly running, and having reached home I take a bath and give myself a rub; 248 and then I breakfast — a repast which leaves me neither empty nor replete,249 and will suffice to last me through the day. pransus non avide, quantum interpellet inani ventre diem durare.

    Oeconomicus 2007

  • And that durare is applied to the idea of hardness, as well as that of existence, we see in Horace, Epod.xvi. ferro duravit secula.

    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

  • Et tam viri quam mulieres diu in equitando possunt durare.

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

  • The interaction of body and mind, which thrive only, as long as they are joined together, and both decay, when they have been separated, the poet describes as follows: — "Denique corporis atque animi vivata potestas inter se coniuncta valent vitaque fruuntur: nec sine corpore enim vitalis edere motus sola potest animi per se natura nec autem cassum animi corpus durare et sensibus uti."

    Lunheng 1962

  • Dei disponit [ordnet] malum, et metas illi constituit, quousque progredi et quam diu durare debeat, idque eo dirigit, ut, licet per se malum sit, nihilominus electis Dei ad salutem cedat. impelling man to crime.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Sanctus ed Agnus Dei, ed anche la piu solenne, quando dice la Messa il Principe stesso, non ha da durare che al piu longo 3 quarti d'ora.

    The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart, Wolfgang A 1864

  • La nostra musica di chiesa e assai differente di quella d'Italia e sempre piu, che una Messa con tutto il Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, la Sonata all 'Epistola, l'Offertorio osia Motetto, Sanctus ed Agnus Dei, ed anche la piu solenne, quando dice la Messa il Principe stesso, non ha da durare che al piu longo 3 quarti d'ora.

    The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1773

  • Tum durare folum, et difcludere Nerea ponto Coepcrit, et rerum paullatim fumere fonpas:

    P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796

  • ColomeUa vfque ad quadrimatum durare att - VII; 9.

    Scriptorvm rei rvsticae vetervm latinorvm tomvs primvs-[qvartvs].. 1794

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