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  • Others there are who would have the name to be deduced from the strokes that are given in fight; since even now in battles, when they press upon their enemies, they constantly call out to each other, strike, in Latin, feri.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Princess, my dear, you gotta be wise and feri feri sharp in order to survive dat lag sef.

    Lagos Touts Part 2 princesa 2007

  • Quicquid sibi imperavit animus obtinuit (as [3414] Seneca saith) nulli tam feri affectus, ut non disciplina perdomentur, whatsoever the will desires, she may command: no such cruel affections, but by discipline they may be tamed; voluntarily thou wilt not do this or that, which thou oughtest to do, or refrain, &c., but when thou art lashed like

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Note 153: See Paris, BN fr. 818, an unedited tale (82 lines long) entitled "De l'ymage Nostre Seigneur qu li Juis feri."

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

  • [Chronicon Hierosolymitanum, eodem libro 9.cap. l2.] continueth this historie of these two hundreth saile of ships, and sheweth how by their prowesse chiefly, the multitude of the Sarazens were in short space vanquished and ouerthrowen: The words are these; Ab ipso ver� die terti� feri� dum sic in superbia et elatione su� multitudinis immobiles Saraceni persisterent, et multis armorum terroribus Christianum populum vexarent, sexta feria appropinquante.

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

  • Excellence! j’ai me battu 27 fois pour le gouvernement contre l’ennemi—on m’a feri deux fois, et j’ai rien fait contre l’honneur—rien de chose qui doit empêché votre excellence de m’ecrir une réponse que je sais quoi faire….

    The End of General Gordon: Paras. 67-99 1918

  • * Cum constet, Legem Dei propter tres causas hominibus datam esse, primo, ut externa quaedam disciplina conservetur, et feri atque intractabiles homines quasi repagulis quibusdam coerceantur,:

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • He cuts and slashes, as if he took pleasure in the operation, like the tyrant who said, Ita feri ut se sentiat emori [2]. '

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • She cannot bear to give up her kinswoman; she sits apart and mutters, 'Aut fer aut feri,' and 'Ne feriare feri.'

    Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • “Insularum partem homines incolebant feri trucesque, qui puerorum et virorum carnibus, quos aliis in insulus bello aut latrociniis cepissent, vescebantur; a feminis abstinebant; Canibales appellati.”

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

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