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Unde et nos pie credimus, confidimus et speramus, quod Theothocos, sancta polorum terreque potentissima imperatrix, inter alia loca dominacionis sue ortum sibi deliciarum preuiderit, elegerit et constituerit istud sanctum monasterium ex antiquo, in quod libenter perambulauit et frequenter, clausum Dei custodia circumdedit et protexit diligenter, ex quo orationum feruencium et uirtutum omnium spirauit odor suauissimus habundanter.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Augustus orbis imperator uxorem expeteret, mallem tua esse meretrix quam orbis imperatrix; she had rather be his vassal, his quean, than the world's empress or queen. — non si me Jupiter ipse forte velit, — she would not change her love for Jupiter himself.
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Alas and alack, my luck seems to be on the sour side this week. *sigh* Fortuna imperatrix mundi.
between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day hawkwing_lb 2006
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After all, ‘imperatrix’ is not a particularly happy epithet to apply to Imogen, is it? — and, by the way, are you certain that she can understand Latin?
The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998
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She was an executive woman, quick of tongue and something of an imperatrix.
A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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Should her father disappear she would make a gracious imperatrix indeed.
Imperial Purple Edgar Saltus 1889
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We remember her now as a kind of Boadicea, a terrifying imperatrix who could reduce the suits around her to gibbering submission with one small exasperated sigh and a toss of her marmalade hair.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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We remember her now as a kind of Boadicea, a terrifying imperatrix who could reduce the suits around her to gibbering submission with one small exasperated sigh and a toss of her marmalade hair.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Any nation that doesn't will suffer the consequences of that inattention, that disrespect toward the imperatrix mundi.
GlobalResearch.ca 2010
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We remember her now as a kind of Boadicea, a terrifying imperatrix who could reduce the suits around her to gibbering submission with one small exasperated sigh and a toss of her marmalade hair.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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