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Liberae unius horae insaniam aeterno temporis taedio pensant.
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The sultan of Sana's wife in Arabia, because Vertomannus was fair and white, could not look off him, from sunrising to sunsetting; she could not desist; she made him one day come into her chamber, et geminae, horae spatio intuebatur, non a me anquam aciem oculorum avertebat, me observans veluti Cupidinem quendam, for two hours 'space she still gazed on him.
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Ad unius horae ebrietatem nudat femora, quae per sexcentos annos sobrietate contexerat.
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Porrò in eo loco vbi statuerat idem Rex ante templum altare holocausti, videlicet extra portam templi occidentalem, habetur et nunc altare, sed non ad instar, nec ad vsum primi: Nam Saraceni, quasi nihil curantes, traxerunt in eo lineos tanquam in astrolabio figentes in linearum centro batellum, ad cuius vmbram per lineas discernuntur diei horae.
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Porr� in eo loco vbi statuerat idem Rex ante templum altare holocausti, videlicet extra portam templi occidentalem, habetur et nunc altare, sed non ad instar, nec ad vsum primi: Nam Saraceni, quasi nihil curantes, traxerunt in eo lineos tanquam in astrolabio figentes in linearum centro batellum, ad cuius vmbram per lineas discernuntur diei horae.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For their standard hours, the astronomers took “equi - noctial hours” (horae equinoctales).
TIME AND MEASUREMENT G. J. WHITROW 1968
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These are the spiritual songs which are inserted in the horae canonicae recited by the priest and are named after the different hours respectively:
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Why does he fling himself from his horae and stare so strangely about him?
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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Why does he fling himself from his horae and stare so strangely about him?
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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Why does he fling himself from his horae and stare so strangely about him?
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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