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
Pietas enim filialis ac reverentia quæ missos nostros nuperrime ad pedes Sanctitatis Vestræ adduxere, non sinunt nos in causâ Sanctitatis Vestræ personam adeo proxime concernente palam et in facie patris dicere non placet.
From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von
They move with a certain Roman state and dignity of bearing— pedes vestis defluxit ad imos Et vera incessu patuit dea.
From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.
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.
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
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