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Xerxis, ob occisos à Lacedemonijs Darij patris legatos, vltionem, ad Regem profecti sunt, & vt legatorum necem in se, non in patria vlcisceretur, erectis & constantibus animis sese obtulerunt.
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Xerxis, ob occisos � Lacedemonijs Darij patris legatos, vltionem, ad Regem profecti sunt, & vt legatorum necem in se, non in patria vlcisceretur, erectis & constantibus animis sese obtulerunt.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Gathered one fine Bleteoidia Orchidea, racemis erectis oblongis, sepalis petalisque fusco-luteis, arcte reflexis, labello albido, odore forti mellis.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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_Caput_ thorace vix latius, setis duabus posticis erectis.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Found very few plants; noticed a flower of a Ternstroemiacea nearly allied to the genus Camellia, cor.rotat. lacin. reflexis, albis fauce carnea.stam. 00, epipet.anther. erectis - apice dehiscent, and of a large Hibiscus; the Caelogyne of the Koond was also found.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Linnæus, No. 13, "Caulibus erectis, foliis cordato-lanceolatis, floribus serioribus apetalis," _i. e._, on erect stems, with leaves long heart-shape, and its later flowers without petals -- not a word said of its earlier flowers which have got those unimportant appendages!
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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Avunculo vero nuper mortuo, quum inter alios consanguineos testamenti ejus lectionem audiendi causa advenissem, erectis auribus verba talia sequentia accepi: 'Quoniam persuasum habeo meum dilectum nepotem
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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The eyes of Demijohn rested, with a cheerful and affectionate expression, on an oldfashioned sideboard, the top of which was well garnished with glasses and decanters, while his companions in arms listened, erectis auribus, to the creaking of smoke-house doors and the cackle of hens in trouble.
Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment viii, 9-151, [1] p. 1847
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CLIANTHUS (Dampieri) herbaceus prostratus sericeovillosissimus, foliolis oppositis (rarissime alternis) oblongis passim lineari-oblongis obovatisve, pedunculis erectis scapiformibus, floribus subumbellatis, calycibus 5-fidis sinubus acutis, ovariis (leguminibusque immaturis) sericeis.
Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832
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Ovarium biloculare? loculis monospermis, ovulis erectis.
Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832
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