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Paranympha in cubiculum adducta capillos ad cutem referebat; sponsus inde ad eam ingressus cingulum solvebat, nec prius sponsam aspexit interdiu quam ex illa factus esset pater.
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Si melancholicis haemorroides supervenerint varices, vel ut quibusdam placet, aqua inter cutem, solvilur malum.
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Another of the same kind appears, ‘Aug. 7, 1779, Partem brachii dextri carpo proximum et cutem pectoris circa mamillam dextram rasi, ut notum fieret quanto temporis pili renovarentur.’
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O stultos nautas, balenarum carnem, � terr� cespitibus, inter fodiendum, non dignoscentes nec lubricam cetorum cutem, � terrestri superficie internoscentes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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O stultos nautas, balenarum carnem, à terræ cespitibus, inter fodiendum, non dignoscentes nec lubricam cetorum cutem, à terrestri superficie internoscentes.
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"Eos qui magnos crateras haustu uno siccare possunt, qui sic crassum illud et porosum corpus vino implent, ut per cutem humor erumpat (nam tum se satis inquiunt potasse, cùm, positis quinque super mensam digitis, _quod ipse aliquando vidi_, totidem guttæ excidunt) laudant; hos viros esse et homines dicunt."
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He thought of the whimsical fate which so oddly gave the "Pro pelle cutem" of the H.B. C. to this unknown tribe of the
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The distinction between _variolae_ and _morbilli_ is in the form and matter of the disease, for in _variolae_ the pustules are large and the matter bilious (_colerica_), while in morbilli the eruption is smaller and does not penetrate the skin (_non-pertransit cutem_).
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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Phrixi, itaque tondebo auro usque ad vivam cutem. servos salutat Nicobulum Chrysalus.
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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A pound of tea, an axe, or a fish-hook was worth a stated number of beaver, so that the motto of the company, "Pro pelle cutem" – "a skin for a skin" – was not only to be taken literally, but was also characteristic of the fair dealing of the traders with the Indians.
Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910
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