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  • Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?

    Hello Whatever I Will Call It 2002

  • Speculator spiritalis/Quasi Seraphim sub alis/Dei videt faciem.

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

  • Oravi ad Dominum, Deum meum ego Daniel dicens: exaudi, Domine, preces servi tui, illumina faciem tuam super sanctuarium tuum, et propitius intende populum istum, super quem invocatum est nomen tuum, Deus.

    Archive 2009-09-01 bls 2009

  • Sitivit anima mea ad Deum, Deum vivum; quando veniam et apparebo ante faciem Dei?

    Archive 2009-06-01 bls 2009

  • Oravi ad Dominum, Deum meum ego Daniel dicens: exaudi, Domine, preces servi tui, illumina faciem tuam super sanctuarium tuum, et propitius intende populum istum, super quem invocatum est nomen tuum, Deus.

    Iustus Es, Domine bls 2009

  • "Emitte Spiritum tuum et creabuntur, et renovabis faciem terrae -- Send forth your Spirit and everything will be recreated and you will renew the face of the earth."

    Archive 2008-05-11 papabear 2008

  • Qui retro cadere dicitur, et non in faciem sicut Saulus cecidisse memoratur.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • Qui retro cadere dicitur, et non in faciem sicut Saulus cecidisse memoratur.

    Sigh. WMAM. 2008

  • Pliny, in his third book, says that from time immemorial the people of the southern coasts of Spain believed that the sea had forced a passage between Calpe and Abila: “Indigenæ columnas Herculis vocant, creduntque per fossas exclusa antea admisisse maria, et rerum naturæ mutasse faciem.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • “Inspiravit in faciem ejus spiraculum,” or “spiritum vitæ” — And he breathed upon his face the breath of life; and, according to the Hebrew, he breathed into his nostrils the breath, the spirit, of life.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

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