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“Quin taces!” snarled Verres when his superior asked where was the beauteous Stratonice.
Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993
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Such services ought to be paid for out of county-wide collected taces.
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“Lincolnshire Notes & Queries” (vol. iii., p. 193); a description is also given there, taken, it would seem, from the “Notes” of Gervase Holles, as follows: — Cromwell, with hands in prayer, is in armour of plain cuirass, with very short skirt of ‘taces,’ to the lower end of which are strapped
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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Bone serve, salve. quid fit? quam mox navigo in Ephesum, ut aurum repetam ab Theotimo domum? taces? per omnis deos adiuro, ut ni meum gnatum tam amem atque ei facta cupiam quae is velit, ut tua iam virgis latera lacerentur probe 779-780 ferratusque in pistrino aetatem conteras. omnia rescivi scelera ex Mnesilocho tua.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Cambyfes,, fon anJ fucceflbr to Cyrus, medU taces thedowofal of Egypt, i. jao.
An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time 1781
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S. etiam taces? gere intro iuflerac fervus, reftac in ipfo adicu forium, icerum obfecracurus Syrum, uc caveac, ne pater irruat.
Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae sex novissime recognitae cum selecta varietate lectionum et ... 1779
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Man’s corduroy surcoat with tabrets and taces, seapan nacre buttons on nail.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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3, J3. taces quid mihi ianua i,; i6, 18. tacet laurus adufla
Sex. Avrel. Propertivs varietate lectionis et perpetva adnotatione illvstratvs Propertius, Sextus 1777
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The relics of the Aiiatic i»: oyince were fwept away by John Va; - taces, the fos-in-law andfucceflor of Theodore La&aria, and who, in a triumphant reign of t} urty*three years, difplaved the virtues both bf peace and war.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1788
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Whence came you. 'and h') w got yon into the way f and hy what nieafu have you per - fervered therein i For but tew ot them that begin to cojiie hither do (hew their taces on tbefe monntaini.
The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come .. 1785
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