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Et sæpe manè nos inueniebamus totos niue, quam ventus pellebat, coopertos.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Sabissatele, alter Ararath, quorum vltimus habet per anfractius, et periodos per ascensum viæ, ferè 7. leucas, et quasi omni tempore est plenus niue.
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Tunc iter ad reuertendum arripuimus, at per totam hyemem venimus, iacentes in desertis sæpiùs in niue, nisi quantum poteramus nobis cum pede locum facere.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Qui responderunt nobis, quòd si duceremus equos illos, quos tunc habebamus, ad Tortaros, cùm essent magnæ niues, morerentur omnes: qui nescirent herbam fodere sub niue, sicut equi faciunt Tartarorum, nec inueniri posset aliquod pro eis ad manducandum, cùm Tartari nec stramina nec foenum habeant, nec pabulum.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Insula montes elati in coelum, quorum vertices perpetua niue candent, radices sempiterno igne 鎠tuant.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Qui responderunt nobis, qu騞 si duceremus equos illos, quos tunc habebamus, ad Tortaros, c鵰 essent magn� niues, morerentur omnes: qui nescirent herbam fodere sub niue, sicut equi faciunt Tartarorum, nec inueniri posset aliquod pro eis ad manducandum, c鵰 Tartari nec stramina nec foenum habeant, nec pabulum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Cardanus in agro Corinthio � montis vertice fluentem riuum commemorat, niue frigidiorem: Et intra primum � Culma lapidem,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Et s鎝e man� nos inueniebamus totos niue, quam ventus pellebat, coopertos.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Tunc iter ad reuertendum arripuimus, at per totam hyemem venimus, iacentes in desertis s鎝i鵶 in niue, nisi quantum poteramus nobis cum pede locum facere.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Noruagus, cum versus insulas Farenses nauigaret tempestate valida, ad littora Islandi� Orientalis fort� appulit: vbi cum fuisset aliquot septimanas cum socijs commoratus, animaduertit immodicam niuium copiam, montium quorundam cacumina obtegentem, atque ide� � niue nomen Insul� Snelandia indidit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
john commented on the word niue
“So far, more than 200 advertisements have run in more than 70 languages: in highbrow periodicals like The New York Review of Books and The Poetry Review in Britain; in general-interest publications like Parade and USA Today; in obscure foreign trade journals like China Copyright and Svensk Bokhandel; and in newspapers in places like Fiji, Greenland, the Falkland Islands, and the Micronesian island of Niue (the name is roughly translated as Behold the Coconut!), which has one newspaper.�?
The New York Times, A Google Search of a Distinctly Retro Kind, by Noam Cohen, March 3, 2009
March 4, 2009
qroqqa commented on the word niue
'Cept that Niue is in Polynesia. Being really small doesn't make it Micronesian, NYT.
March 4, 2009