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  • Et tum sicut equus qui de praesepibus fartus uincla suis magnis animis abrupit et inde30 fert sese campi per caerula laetaque prata, celso pectore saepe iubam quassat simul altam, spiritus ex anima calida spumas agit altas.

    Lesser Fragments of the Annals 1912

  • Concidit, et spumas agit; ingemit, et tremit artus;

    The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 09 Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • Concidit, et spumas agit; ingemit, et tremit artus;

    The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • But Barney, honestly, I don’t think this occasion is going to call for any spumas—delicious though they are!

    Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010

  • I could have done with it to make a bitter almond foam to go with my chocolate soufflés, and I’m certainly going to need it for a couple of spumas for Lara’s mum’s dinner …

    Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010

  • But Barney, honestly, I don’t think this occasion is going to call for any spumas—delicious though they are!

    Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010

  • I could have done with it to make a bitter almond foam to go with my chocolate soufflés, and I’m certainly going to need it for a couple of spumas for Lara’s mum’s dinner …

    Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010

  • But the work is finished and elegant, [318] and the simile which describes the arrival of the serpents that were to slay Laocoon is not unworthy of a more successful poet than Eumolpus is represented to have been: ecce alia monstra; celsa qua Tenedos mare dorso replevit, tumida consurgunt freta undaque resultat scissa tranquillo minans [319] qualis silenti nocte remorum sonus longe refertur, cum premunt classes mare pulsumque marmor abiete imposita gemit. respicimus; angues orbibus geminis ferunt ad saxa fluctus, tumida quorum pectora rates ut altae lateribus spumas agunt.

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

  • Spiritus ex anima calida spumas agit albas, "with Virg.

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

  • Spiritus ex anima calida spumas agit albas. "] [Footnote 251: Observe the anacoluthon.] [Footnote 252: An instance of hendiadys.]

    The Iliad of Homer (1873) 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1840

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