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[5728] Florem decoris singuli carpunt dies: Every day detracts from her person, and this beauty is bonum fragile, a mere flash, a Venice glass, quickly broken,
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Pytan Insula breuis continet paucos et breues habitatores, Pygmaeis modico longiores, qui decoris vultibus nullo vnquam cibo vescentes, specialis pomi quod secum portant sustentantur odore, quo si carerent ad parum, color in vultu marcesceret, et die tertia vita periret.
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Pytan Insula breuis continet paucos et breues habitatores, Pygmaeis modico longiores, qui decoris vultibus nullo vnquam cibo vescentes, specialis pomi quod secum portant sustentantur odore, quo si carerent ad parum, color in vultu marcesceret, et die tertia vita periret.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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At Catoni studium modestiae, decoris, sed maxime severitatis erat.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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= Compare _Fast_ II 835-36 (Lucretia has just killed herself) 'ecce super corpus _communia damna_ gementes/obliti decoris uirque paterque iacent' and _Tr_ IV iii 35 'tu uero tua damna dole, mitissima coniunx'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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[87] "Neque enim possunt carmina, quamvis optime composita ex alia in aliam linguam ad verbum sine detrimento sui decoris ac dignitatis transferri."
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Igitur rex Monsorellum, qui tunc forte in aula erat, clam revocat, et literas Bussii ei ostendit; additque se decoris familiae et ejus dignitatis perquam studiosum, noluisse rem adeo injuriosam eum celare; ceterum scire ipsum debere, quid consilii in tali occasione se capere deceat et oporteat.
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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"Paradisus Carmelitici decoris" by M.A. Alegre de Casanate, published in 1639, condemned by the Sorbonne in 1642, and placed on the Roman Index in 1649.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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St-Denis, allowing six deacons to array themselves in the stola dalmaticae decoris (sic) when discharging their sacred functions
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Libro Sapientiae: Justi accipient regnum decoris et diadema speciei de manu Domini.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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