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  • Sutton Coldfield in Warwickshire (where I was once a grammar scholar), may be a sufficient witness, which stands, as Camden notes, loco ingrato et sterili, but in an excellent air, and full of all manner of pleasures.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Lift the lid of a stock dish just enough and pick up a fragment of mycelium with an inoculation loop that has been flame sterili - zed and allowed a moment to cool.

    Quartermasters of Terror Keefe, Patrick Radden 2005

  • Vnde fit vt cum vbique in Anglia caritas victualium pro sterili prouentu messium sit, ibi necessaria distrahantur & emantur minore, qu鄊 alibi, vel vendentium compendio, vel ementium dispendio.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • John Tyndall in 1877 studied the phenomenon just described, and found that by boiling for intermittent periods of not longer than a minute at intervals of 12 hours, sterili -

    GENETIC CONTINUITY BENTLEY GLASS 1968

  • RESPONDET = introduces the agricultural image of 18 'sed siccum sterili uomere litus aro', for the word here means 'yield'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Several new points were supposed to lend it a claim to authority, such as the statement that he was 'matre natus diu sterili.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Willdenow states that "radices peloriæ, solo sterili plantatæ, degenerant in Linariam," ( 'Sp. Plant.,' iii, p. 254); but this opinion is counterbalanced by that of others, while the frequent existence of both forms on the same plant, at the same time, seems to negative the supposition of any direct effect from external circumstances.

    Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

  • Maeoniumque senem Romano prouocat ore, forsitan illius nemoris latuisset in umbra, 25 quod canit, et sterili tantum cantasset auena ignotus populis, si Maecenate careret. qui tamen haut uni patefecit limina uati nec sua Vergilio permisit carmina soli.

    Laus Pisonis Anonymous 1912

  • Quaeritur, et sterili tantum de pulvere pugna est.

    The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Burigny, Jean L De 1754

  • Vnde fit vt cum vbique in Anglia caritas victualium pro sterili prouentu messium sit, ibi necessaria distrahantur & emantur minore, quàm alibi, vel vendentium compendio, vel ementium dispendio.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584

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