pedes
Britishnoun
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Silent became she, and the Angels sangSuddenly, "In te, Domine, speravi:"But beyond "pedes meos" did not pass.
From The Guardian • Aug. 16, 2010
"Illa quidem, dum te fugeret per flumina præceps, Immanem ante pedes hydrum moritura puella Servantem ripas altâ non vidit in herbâ."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
Laudem hanc haud miror: meruit facundus haberi, Qui claudo promptos suasit habere pedes.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
The most absurd thing was, that not having any friends in Baden, he was driven to return "per pedes" to his university, a distance of more than one hundred miles.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various
Thus too the pretensions and the ignorance of astrologers are exposed in a line of one of the dramas— Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: caeli scrutantur plagas.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
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