lapides
- plural of lapis.
Example Sentences
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Upon that hille, the enemy of helle bare our Lord, and tempted him, and seyde; Dic ut lapides isti panes fiant; that is to seye, Sey, that theise stones be made loves.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Hakluyt, Richard
Modern civilization owes its universities to the Catholic Church, as the very stones of Cambridge and Oxford still proclaim . . . lapides clamabunt!
From Catholic Problems in Western Canada by Daly, George Thomas
But the lapides were probably of volcanic origin.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde
This is what Tryphon's verses seem to announce to the indiscreet and curious:— "Fodit, et in fossa thesauros condit opaca, As, nummas, lapides, cadaver, simulacra, nihilque."
From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
Upon that hill the enemy of hell bare our Lord and tempted him, and said, Dic ut lapides isti panes fiant; that is to say, ‘Say, that these stones be made loaves.’
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir
