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  • Adonis, when she could take no rest for love, [5820] Cum vesana suas torreret flamma medullas, came to the temple of

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Baratheo sulfure et flamma stagnante sternum demergebantur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Humor hic niger aliquando praeter modum calefactus, et alias refrigeratus evadit: nam recentibus carbonibus ei quid simile accidit, qui durante flamma pellucidissime candent, ea extincta prorsus nigrescunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Epist. et in deliciis, abi et oppugnationem relinque, quam flamma non extinguit; nam ab amore ipsa flamma sentit incendium: quae corporum penetratio, quae tyrannis haec?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The name, aurea flamma, conflates the banner flamma and the color of the lance.

    Archive 2007-07-15 de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • Major illa flamma quae consumit unam animam, quam quae centum millia corporum.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The name, aurea flamma, conflates the banner flamma and the color of the lance.

    l'Oriflamme de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • Item si in clara flamma ignis vel candeliæ cereæ miseris punctum cultelli cum gutta puri Balsami, ipsa gutta de facilè comburetur.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Heclæ flamma nec stuppam lucernarum luminibus aptissimam adurit, neque aqua extinguitur: Eóque impetu, quo apud nos machinis bellicis, globi eijciuntur, illinc lapides magni in aera emittuntur, ex frigoris & ignis & sulphuris commixtione.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Accedit aër per poros ac cauernas in terræ viscera ingressus, ac illum maximi incendij fomitem exsufflans vnà cum nitro, qua exsufflatione tanquam follibus quibusdam, ardentissima excitatur flamma.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

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