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D. "_Rapido contrarius orbi_" (Vol. ii., p. 120.).
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"_Rapido contrarius orbi_" (Vol. ii., p. 120.) is in one of the finest passages in Ovid:
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F. contrarius, and the extinct species Nucula Cobboldiae, and
The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836
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Eflecprofcdo deus is alius, & contrarius quidem vero atquc vni Deo.
Ivlii Caesaris Scaligeri ... Poetices libri septem ... Editio qvinta 1617
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College, of "Abp. Sancroft, sitting at a writing-table with arms, and motto, _Rapido contrarius orbi_.
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"_Sunt autem gentes, quarum contrarius mos est, ut clitoris et labia minora non exsecentur, verum extendantur, et saepe longissime extendantur_." [
Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire James Weir 1881
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[Footnote 1: _Palpares contrarius_, Walker; _Myrmeleon gravis_, Walker;
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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[Footnote 1: _Palpares contrarius_, Walker; _Myrmeleon gravis_, Walker;
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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"Qui color ater erat, nunc est contrarius atro." [
The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 Jonathan Swift 1706
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