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  • The lank, black twine-like hair, pingui-nitescent, cut in a straight line, along the black stubble of his thin gunpowder eyebrows, that looked like a scorched aftermath from a last week's shaving.

    The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 James Gillman

  • His penance is to entertain his masters "largissima coena," not forgetting the doctor who has just healed him, and the confessor who has just heard his confession, for they also must be entertained "pingui refectione."

    Life in the Medieval University Robert S. Rait

  • Palladiumque nemus pingui se vertice frangit. iam qua diductos potat levis area fontes,

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

  • Pierius uotum iuuenis cupit. hanc ego formae egregium mirata decus cui gloria patrum et generis certabat honos, tellure cadentem excepi fouique sinu; nec colla genasque110 comere nec pingui crinem deducere amomo cessauit mea, nate, manus. mihi dulcis imago prosiluit. celsae procul aspice frontis honores suggestumque comae.

    The Marriage of Stella and Violentilla 1912

  • The motto, "pingui nil mihi cum populo," was strictly followed, and all the best literature addressed only to a select circle.

    The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

  • The lank, black, twine - like hair, pingui-nitescent, cut in a straight line along the black stubble of his thin gunpowder eye-brows, that looked like a scorched after-math from a last week's shaving.

    Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • Ergo quum sperem in Academiis florentissimis consociatum iri bene multos, qui, non pingui Minerva, sed acuto iudicio in has controversias inspecturi sunt, et horum responsa nugatoria libraturi, laetus hunc diem campi praestolabor, ut qui contra sylvestres tumulos mendiculorum inermium nobilitatem et robur

    Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities Edmund Campion 1560

  • Heul heu! quam pingui macer efl mibi taurus in crvo!

    P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796

  • VoSy o clariffima mundi Numinal labentem ooelo quae dudtis annum lAber, et alma Ceres; veiho fi munere tellus Chaoniam pingui glandem mutavit ariftl»

    P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796

  • Sed tamen alternis facilis labor: arida tantum Ne faturare fimo pingui pudeat fola; neve Efietos cinerem inmundum jadare per agros.

    P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796

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