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At Schemnitz he asked the superintendent, an comparcant Dæmunculi vel pygmæi in fodinis?—respondit affirmative, et narrat plura exempla; and at Herrengrund, utrum appareant Dæmunculi seu pygmæi?—respondit tales visos fuisse, et auditos pluries.

From Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland by Browne, G. F. (George Forrest)

In Seneca's phrase, "longum iter per pr�cepta, -53-breve per exempla."

From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Spingarn, Joel Elias

Ad hoc incommodum avertendum non semel Romani Pontifices prospexerunt, et ut aliarum aetatum exempla taceamus, aevo nostro per S. M. Leonem XII.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, December 1864 by Various

Sequere priorum, a quibus eruditus es et nutritus, exempla pontificum, beatissimi Ioannis scientiam, sancti Attici in repugnandis haeresibus vigilantiam.”325.Hom. in 1 Cor.,

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur

Latin, 146, with "exempla," 154, English, 205 ff., in Chaucer, 335, 354, in Langland, 387, by Wyclif, 434.

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules