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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
frons .
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Horum quidam frontes gerunt cornibus asperatas, grinientes vt feræ vel apri: alij nonnulla vti videntur loquela, quam nemo rationalium nonit, et quibusdam signis concepta depromunt.
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Horum quidam frontes gerunt cornibus asperatas, grinientes vt fer� vel apri: alij nonnulla vti videntur loquela, quam nemo rationalium nonit, et quibusdam signis concepta depromunt.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Quid habes, cur ignoscas homini armaria citro atque ebore captanti, corpora conquirenti aut ignotorum auctorum aut improbatorum, et inter tot millia librorum oscitanti, cui voluminum suorum frontes maxime placent titulique?
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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That the ends of the rolls (_frontes_) were visible, is, I think, quite clear from what Cicero says of his own library after the construction of his shelves (_pegmata_); and the various devices for making rolls attractive seem to me to prove that they were intended to be seen.
The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871
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Quid habes cur ignoscas homini armaria citro atque ebore captanti, corpora conquirenti aut ignotorum auctorum aut improbatorum et inter tot milia librorum oscitanti, cui voluminum suorum frontes maxime placent titulique?
The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871
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Denique Regia Chrifti dignitas ex eo fplendefdt» quod Crux exempta poenis fuppliciorum, translata pft ad frontes, & cqronas Impcratorum.
Theologia dogmatico-moralis secundum ordinem catechismi Concilii Tridentini 1768
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A locis iuppliT ciorum fecit tranfitum ad frontes Imperatorum.
Theologia dogmatico-moralis secundum ordinem catechismi Concilii Tridentini 1768
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(_frontes_) were carefully cut, so as to be perfectly symmetrical, and afterwards smoothed with pumice-stone and coloured.
The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871
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