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  • Ploras aquam profundere, &c. periit dum fumus de tigillo exit foras.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Aut ibi gignitur, melancholicus fumus, aut aliunde vehitur, alterando animales facultates.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Supra vero in medio rotundam habent fenestram, vnde ingrediatur lumen, et fumus exire possit: quia semper in medio faciunt ignem: parietes autem et tecta filtro sunt operta Ostia quoque de filtro sunt facta

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • Isti religiosi omni die pascunt Deos suos, vnde semel iui ad videntum comestionem illam, et vidi quòd illa quæ detulerunt sibi comestibilia sunt, et calidissima, et multum fumigantia, ita quòd fumus ascendit ad idola, et dixerunt Deos illo fumo recreari.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • Supra vero in medio rotundam habent fenestram, vnde ingrediatur lumen, et fumus exire possit: quia semper in medio faciunt ignem: parietes autem et tecta filtro sunt operta Ostia quoque de filtro sunt facta

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

  • Supra vero in medio rotundam habent fenestram vnde lumen ingreditur, et vt possit fumus exire: quia semper in medio ignem faciunt.

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

  • Et respexit super faciem Sedom et Hamorah, et super omnem faciem terrae planitiei: et videt, et ecce, ascendebat fumus terrae sicut fumus fornacis.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • From the fact that the vital fluid is born with the body, that it grows, develops, and declines along with it, Lucretius infers that the fluid must also be dissolved simultaneously with the body, scattered into the air like smoke: — "ergo dissolvi quoque convenit omnem animai naturam, ceu fumus, in altas aëris auras; quandoquidem gigni pariter pariterque videmus crescere et, ut docui, simul ævo fessa fatisci."

    Lunheng 1962

  • "_Claritatem facit inunctis oculis delachrymationemque, ceu fumus, unde nomen_."

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • The name Thyme is derived from the Greek _thumos_, as identical with the Latin _fumus_, smoke, having reference to the ancient use of Thyme in sacrifices, because of its fragrant odour; or, it may be, as signifying courage (_thumos_), which its cordial qualities inspire.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

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