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  • adjective See ovine.

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Examples

  • Nos igitur qui eiusdem Domini Nostri vices, licet immeriti, gerimus in terris, et oves gregis sui nobis commissas, quæ extra eius ovile sunt, ad ipsum ovile toto nixu exquirimus.

    Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings Francis Augustus MacNutt

  • They were accordingly called up and an interval was allowed for the two bodies to consult privately in the ovile.

    The History of Rome, Vol. IV 1905

  • Upper classes have never legislated systematically in their interests; and quid ... rabidae tradis ovile lupae? says one of the multitude.

    Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • Upper classes have never legislated systematically in their interests; and quid ... rabidae tradis ovile lupae? says one of the multitude.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Upper classes have never legislated systematically in their interests; and quid ... rabidae tradis ovile lupae? says one of the multitude.

    Diana of the Crossways — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868

  • "Bello ovile dov 'io dormii agnello"; [121] of things beautiful, besides men and women, dusty sunbeams up or down the street on summer mornings; deep furrowed cabbage-leaves at the greengrocer's; magnificence of oranges in wheelbarrows round the corner; and Thames 'shore within three minutes' race.

    Selections From the Works of John Ruskin John Ruskin 1859

  • Nothing is (ovile as Chrifl to a man naunhumbled, and can you fo cafilv prize him j ai; Ld taftchiin, wichouc anycafi*. iogocMivne?.

    The sound believer, or, A treatise of evangelicall conversion 1653

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