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  • Super lectio illorum fossor, ego intereo impeditus.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2008

  • Cosmo Paccio Interpret. nihil ab aeris caligine aut figurarum varietate impeditus meram pulchritudinem meruit, exultans et misericordia motus, cognatos amicos qui adhuc morantur in terra tuetur, errantibus succurrit, &c. Deus hoc jussit ut essent genii dii tutelares hominibus, bonos juvantes, males punientes,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Consul impeditus a tribunis plebis, ne, quas paraverat copias, secum portaret, paucis diebus in Africam proficiscitur; nam omnis exercitus, uti convenerat, Numidia deductus, in provincia hiemabat.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • At Jugurtha munimento castrorum impeditus, quum alii super vallum praecipitarentur, alii in angustiis ipsi sibi properantes officerent, multis amissis in loca munita sese recepit.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • At that instant the natural spirit, which dwells in that part where the nourishment is supplied, began to weep, and, weeping, said these words: _Heu miser! quia frequenter impeditus ero deinceps.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various

  • Another interesting fact is that whereas the word impediment has thus acquired a precise technical meaning in canon law, the cognate words impedire, impediens, impeditus, have preserved their wide grammatical signification and may be applied to other matters; so writers speak of those unable to go personally to Rome to be absolved from censures as impediti adire Romam, and the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • At that instant the natural spirit, which dwells in that part where our nourishment is supplied, began to weep, and, weeping, said these words: _Heu miser! quia frequenter impeditus ero deinceps_

    Women of the Romance Countries John Robert Effinger 1901

  • Marcellinus, a heathen; Zemach David, a Jew, who confesses that Julian was, divinitus impeditus, providentially hindered, in his attempt; Nazianzen and

    The Evidences of the Christian Religion. 1772-1851 1832

  • Caujja proxima Pleuritidis ftagnatio & coagulatio fanguinis in vafis minimis arteriofis, ejusque in venas impeditus transfluxus, habetur.

    Caroli a Linné equit. aur. de stella polari archiatri regii med. et botan. profess. Upsal. Acad ... 1788

  • (being, as I explained to you, impeditus, for had I been expeditus, I mind not pedestrian exercise the flourish of a fife), that I think I had better ensconce myself in one of these bushes, and even lie quiet there to abide what fortune God shall send me.

    A Legend of Montrose 1871

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