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"Candida quod nigra corpora pelle geris," giving it an interpretation disparaging to Williams 'racial self-respect.
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Quo ambulas, tu qui Volcanum in cornu conclusum geris?
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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'_Dis te minorem quod geris imperas_,' King quoted presently.
A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900
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'_Dis te minorem quod geris imperas_,' quoth Stalky, ruffling Winton's lint-white locks.
A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Ode -- _Delicta Majorum_ -- where he fetched up, full-voiced, upon -- '_Dis te minorem quod geris imperas_' (Thou rulest because thou bearest thyself as lower than the Gods) -- making it a text for a discourse on manners, morals, and respect for authority as distinct from bottled gases, which lasted till the bell rang.
A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Ut cjuid bellum cum mortuis geris, quod ad tiego - cium temporis noftri non pertinet? '
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Nec enun qux geris munera, tibi vendicas, fed ia populum refundis.
Reverendissimi patris Fr. Francisci de Macedo ... Carmina selecta 1683
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mersus humi semper florida terga geris: ast ego deformi sublimis in aera pinna
The Peacock and the Crane Avianus 1912
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seu tu querelas siue geris iocos seu rixam et insanos amores
Pia Testa Horace 1912
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£t vigilans ftertis, nec fomnia cernere ceffas y Sollicitamque geris caifa formtdine mentem?
T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Titus Lucretius Carus , Thomas Creech , George Gordon Byron Byron 1770
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