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  • The et nunc et semper et in secula seculorum of the Liturgy is the device taken by many a sublime unknown poet, whose works consist in magnificent epics conceived and lost between heart and heart.

    Two Poets 2007

  • The et nunc et semper et in secula seculorum of the Liturgy is the device taken by many a sublime unknown poet, whose works consist in magnificent epics conceived and lost between heart and heart.

    Two Poets 2007

  • There will come a day (may it be long distant!) when the very best of his novels will be forgotten; and it is reasonable to suppose that his dramas will pass out of existence, some time or other, in the lapse of the secula seculorum.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

  • My word given to her was in secula seculorum, or binding at least as long as my life should endure.

    The Virginians 2006

  • Nay, an infinitude, an endless number of beings, which Nature in secula seculorum unceasingly sends bubbling forth from her inexhaustible source; as generous with them as the smith with the dross that flies round his anvil.

    Essays of Schopenhauer 2004

  • The words on it reflect the millennial theme of a novus ordo seculorum, a new order of ages -- and a decisively unfinished pyramid, signaling also the work ahead in a new era, suggesting hope for the result of that work.

    Remarks At Fifth Millennium Evening At The White House ITY National Archives 1999

  • O bow belle, my puella I'll kiss in secula seculorum;

    Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

  • Spiritus Sancti circundet sponsum et sponsam, ut videant filios et filias usque tertiam et quartam generationem: qui collaudent nomen viventis atque regnantis in secula seculorum.

    Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. Various

  • Their paradise is beneath the great deep; those who have lived a good life, proceed to a part of the sea abounding with whales and seals, where, free from care and toil, they fare sumptuously on raw flesh and blubber, _in secula_ _seculorum_.

    Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. (of 2) John M'lean

  • We believe it was the last year's, and is we suppose to become an annual repetition _in secula seculorum_.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various

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