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  • In Latin, passio is “suffering,” flos means “flower” and the verb “to wander.”

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • In Latin, passio is “suffering,” flos means “flower” and the verb “to wander.”

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • Yu nawt wairz dat kined ub flos? iz wai tu chekee fur me. tessm says:

    quick fran, tourists. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • The motet ‘ter eeren onser liever vrouwen’, which he offered to the brotherhood on his departure, is no doubt his seven-voice Ego flos campi on a text from the Song of Songs.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • “Ut flos in septis secretus nascitur hortis,” etc., while his wife could hardly persuade herself that all this was spoken of Effie Deans, and by so competent a judge as the Duke of

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • Next day, having loosed the bandages, the fistula is to be washed with hot water, and cleansed, as far as possible, with the finger of the left hand by means of the sponge, and again the flos aeris is to be applied.

    On Fistulae 2007

  • But if you wish to effect the cure by suppositories, take the shell of the part fish a third part of plumbago, bitumen, alum, a little of the flos aeris, galls, a little verdigris; having poured a small quantity of boiled honey on these, and formed an oblong suppository, apply until you remove them.

    On Hemorrhoids 2007

  • When the fistula does not get eaten through, having first examined it with a sound, cut down as far as it passes, and sprinkle with the flos aeris, and let it remain for five days.

    On Fistulae 2007

  • If matters then be thus put to rights, it will be well; but otherwise burn it, taking care not to touch the place with the iron, but bringing it close so as to dry it up, and apply the flos aeris in the urine.

    On Hemorrhoids 2007

  • June come pinks of all sorts, specially the blushpink; roses of all kinds, except the musk, which comes later; honeysuckles; strawberries; bugloss; columbine; the French marigold, flos

    The Essays 2007

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