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_Abdomen_ transversum, thorace paullo latius, valde brevius.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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_Caput_ transversum, thorace paullo angustius; facies valde obliqua.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Veniunt etiam qui me audiant quasi doctum hominem, quia paullo sum quam ipsi doctior. '
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Rousseau declared himself paullo infirmior, and clung to the morality of the gospel as the natural morality which in old times constituted the whole and only creed.
Rousseau Morley, John 1905
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Oh, no! If anything, it must be of the “paullo majora.”
Authors and Friends Fields, Annie, 1834-1915 1896
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Rousseau declared himself _paullo infirmior_, and clung to the morality of the gospel as the natural morality which in old times constituted the whole and only creed.
Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) John Morley 1880
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Oh, no! If anything, it must be of the "paullo majora."
Authors and Friends Annie Fields 1874
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Aetas tamen Quinctiliani paullo grandior fuisse videtur, quam ut hic sermo illo juvene.
Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852
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Feminâ, "remarks," Aetas noster quatuor illas Isabellae reginae filias, quas paullo ante memoravi, eruditas vidit.
The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 William Hickling Prescott 1827
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So often, he goes on to say, as this dreadful curse entailed upon Rome Imperial comes into my mind, so often 'Franciæ patriæ meæ felicitatem non possim non prædicare; quæ sub imperio Regum sexaginta trium (LXIII) -- non dicam CLX annos' (which had been the upshot of time, the 'tottle,' upon sixty-three Imperatores) sed paullo minus
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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