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  • Pinning down with evergreen elements such as box balls, small hebes, glossy-leaved sarcococcas or the grey-leaved Salvia officinalis 'Berggarten' is necessary.

    Gardens: Planting in drifts Fergus Garrett 2010

  • Mens hebes ad verum per materialia surgit, Suger is reported to have said: the dull mind rises to truth through that which is material.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Carolingian 2006

  • Pupilla hebes, one of the tiny fossil species recovered from cliff-top eolian deposits.

    Archive 2006-04-01 AYDIN 2006

  • Mens hebes ad verum per materialia surgit, Suger is reported to have said: the dull mind rises to truth through that which is material.

    Mens Hebes Carolingian 2006

  • Vos igitur sine controversia ambiguitatis, et pluralem nominativum, et singularem genitivum per AE scribite: nam qui non potest dignoscere supra scriptarum vocum numeros et casum, valde est hebes.

    The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord

  • He finds it in the Fabrica Linguæ Arab. of Germanus of Silesia (p. 786) = ignavis, hebes, stupidus, esp. a coward.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Another objection raised is that Tacitus wrongly writes "quantum" as the corresponding adverb to "tanto," "_quantum_que hebes ad sustinendum laborem miles, _tanto_ ad discordias promptior"

    Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852

  • Illa sunt similia; hebes acies est cuipiam oculorum: corpore alius languescit: hi curatione adhibitâ levantur in dies: alter valet plus quotidie: alter videt.

    A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

  • All over Seattle, rosemary, cistus and hebes withered in the severe cold, and often their roots rotted away from all the melting snow and pelting rain.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • We've been covering warranty replacements on an unprecedented scale, substituting for hebes, nandina, rockrose and

    The Seattle Times 2011

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