voces
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Certain viva voces taken in the afternoon confirmed their ill opinion of their examiner.
From The Madcap of the School by Balliol Salmon
If there are any viva voces I shall break down altogether.
From The Madcap of the School by Balliol Salmon
In this clamour of the voces populi the voice of Canada was not to be disregarded.
From The Masques of Ottawa by Augustus Bridle
A man on the top of the coach told you that she was going to be married—that is, in vulgum pargere voces, as a body may say—capital authority!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 by Various
And in far harsher terms elsewhere, as these: Non me verbosas leges ediscere, non me Ingrato voces prostituisse foro.
From The Poetaster by Ben Jonson
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