virginibus puerisque
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It is not written virginibus puerisque; but as I am neither the one nor the other, I may express my admiration of its vigorous virility and bold natural truth.
From Memories of Hawthorne by Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne
There is, of course, a sort of background to all this audacious fooling, more definitely directed virginibus puerisque.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 5, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
His patron's lucubrations have taken the turn of many other memoirs, and have ceased to address themselves virginibus puerisque.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 by James, Henry
Not virginibus puerisque will be my book, I assure you, but for men and women who like to look beneath the surface, and who understand that only as artistic material has human life any significance.
From The Unclassed by Gissing, George
It is a work of rare beauty, and, we may add, of profound moral truth, albeit not written precisely virginibus puerisque.
From The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports by Anonymous
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