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  • Sciatis nos pro salute anime nostre et pro salute animarum antecessorum et suocessorum nostrorum Regum Scocie Dedisse Concessisse et hac presenti Carta nostra confirmasse Deo et Beate Marie virgini et

    The Monastery 2008

  • We are here visiting the virgini-tree and discussing ways to avoid it in the future.

    Zombie Lover Anthony, Piers 1998

  • We are here visiting the virgini-tree and discussing ways to avoid it in the future.

    Zombie Lover Anthony, Piers 1998

  • "Do you think it will free us from maidenly bondage to the virgini-tree?"

    Zombie Lover Anthony, Piers 1998

  • "Do you think it will free us from maidenly bondage to the virgini-tree?"

    Zombie Lover Anthony, Piers 1998

  • "Mercatis igitur prædiis, in ipso vertice urbis juxta castellum turribus fortissimis eminens, in loco forti fortem, pulchro pulchrum, virgini virgineam construxit ecclesiam; quæ et grata esset Deo servientibus et, ut pro tempore oportebat, invincibilis hostibus."

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • Chartres is in many respects the most wonderful sanctuary in Europe dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, as it boasts of an uninterrupted tradition from the times of the druids who dedicated there a statue of virgini parituræ.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • The interpreter thus: _Quin etiam Sichimitoe puniuntur, qui lapsi sunt, sanctoe virgini probrum inferentes.

    The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630

  • Siut, or Osiot, a town of Said, about the size of St. Denys, which drives a profitable trade with the kingdom of Senaar, and has a very convenient fountain, “cujus potu signa virgini tatis eripiuntur.”

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • (for Suadela herself was Venus 'daughter, as some write) arts and sciences, quo virgini placeret, all to ingratiate himself, and please his mistress.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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