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Quaeris a me quantum operantur astra? dico, in nos nihil astra urgere, sed animos praeclives trahere: qui sic tamen liberi sunt, ut si ducem sequantur rationem, nihil efficiant, sin vero naturam, id agere quod in brutis fere.
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Si illam saltem intuearis, statuis immobiliorem te faciet: si conspexeris eam, non relinquetur facultas oculos ab ea amovendi; abducet te alligatum quocunque voluerit, ut ferrum ad se trahere ferunt adamantem.
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Oceanum Aquilonarem faciunt canes trahere in bigis sicut boues propter magnitudinem et fortitudinem eorum.
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Retract, from the Latin trahere, “to draw,” means “to take back; to with-draw.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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Retract, from the Latin trahere, “to draw,” means “to take back; to with-draw.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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Hinc nauigando per multas et diuersas Insulas, qui in singulas intrare, et moram trahere voluerit, stupenda multa videbit, et poterit venire in Insulam Tracoide.
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Eadem est ratio colorum aqu�, ait, qu� & saporum: videlicet � terra originem trahere.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Et si aliqui non sunt ita bene armati, vt dixit; debent ire post alios vt faciunt Tartari: et trahere contra eos de armis et sagittis.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Hinc nauigando per multas et diuersas Insulas, qui in singulas intrare, et moram trahere voluerit, stupenda multa videbit, et poterit venire in Insulam Tracoide.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Oceanum Aquilonarem faciunt canes trahere in bigis sicut boues propter magnitudinem et fortitudinem eorum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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