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In his _Popius_ eam in ludibrium vertit, &c. Sed eximius Poeta neque in veteribus suæ ipsius linguæ, nedum Græcæ monumentis versatus, tantum scilicet de antiqua illa litera vidit, quantum _de Shakespearii_

Notes and Queries, Number 50, October 12, 1850 Various

'INGRATUS plane et tibi et mihi videar, nisi quanto me gaudio affecerint quos nuper mihi honores (te credo auctore) decrevit Senatus Academicus, Iiterarum, quo lamen nihil levius, officio, significem: ingratus etiam, nisi comitatem, qua vir eximius [1] mihi vestri testimonium amoris in manus tradidit, agnoscam et laudem.

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

[Footnote 532: 'His temporibus habitus est eximius, cum princeps non esset erectus.'] 'Distinguished by these virtues, our candidate has been fittingly allied by marriage with the noble family of Basilius [533].

The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872

The green and rose-hill parrots (_Platycercus flaviventris_, Temm., and _P. eximius_, Shaw) occur in immense flocks in some places, and prove very destructive to the ripe grain in the fields, as also injuring the roofs of corn stacks in the barn yards.

The History of Tasmania, Volume I John West 1840

And in his _Walter Hemingford_, we have: -- "fragmentum, ad civitatem Oxoniensem pertinens, admodum egregium, mihi dono dedit amicus eximius Jacobus West -- is quem alibi juvenem ornatissimum appellavi," &c., p. 428.

Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

Academicus, Iiterarum, quo lamen nihil levius, officio, significem: ingratus etiam, nisi comitatem, quá vir eximius [831] mihi vestri testimonium amoris in manus tradidit, agnoscam et laudem.

Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 James Boswell 1767

For before he had arrived at the 26th year of his life, he had such a large stock of useful knowledge, as to be _philologus, philosophus et theologus eximius_, and might well have been an ornament to the most famous and flourishing university in Europe.

Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies John Howie 1764

[1] Virorum maximus -- Joannes Miltonus -- Poeta celeberrimus -- non Angliae modo, soli natalis, verum generis humani ornamentum -- cujus eximius liber, Anglicanis versibus conscriptus, vulgo Paradisus amissus, immortalis illud ingenii monumentum, cum ipsa fere aeternitate perennaturum est opus!

The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces Samuel Johnson 1746

Eastern Rosella (Platycercus eximius) on a bird feeder.

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But Anelosimus eximius, a species notable for its enormous colony size - some numbering more than 20,000 individuals - have gained the ability to stretch that law by cooperating and capturing increasingly large insects as their colonies grow.

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