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
With the second book of the Compendium the system of the discussion of diseases a capite ad pedes is commenced, and produces some curious associates.
From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Handerson, Henry Ebenezer
Tibullus delights to describe his mistress's little foot, compressed by the band that imprisoned it: Ansaque compressos colligat arcta pedes.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Ellis, Havelock
An Vsher of a dancing-schoole, he is such a basia de vmbra de vmbra de los pedes; a kisser of the shadow of your feetes shadow he is!”
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac
The slab is enclosed in red jasper and guarded by an iron grating, and above it these words of the Psalmist are engraved in the stone, Adorabimus in loco ubi steterunt pedes ejus.
From Castilian Days by Hay, John
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