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In all these ceremonies they burn on the spot a little gum benzoin Et acerra thuris plena, positusque carbo in cespite vivo. The form of taking an oath among the people of Madagascar very nearly resembles the ceremonies used by the Sumatrans.

Every now and then the voices of peasants going home rippled up from unseen paths, then sank again into the earth. On the high windows of Nemi the sunset light from the Campagna struck and flamed, 'Ave Maria gratia plena. How softened now, how thinly, delicately far! The singers must be nearing their homes in the little hill town. Lucy looked around her.

" rubra plena. " spectabilis plena. " violacea. HIPPOPHAE RHAMNOIDES. Sea Buckthorn, or Sallow Thorn. Though generally considered as a sea-side shrub, the Sea Buckthorn is by no means exclusively so, thriving well, and attaining to large dimensions, in many inland situations.

'Nunquam enim nisi navi plenâ tollo vectorem. Lib. ii. c. vi. See ante, i. 187. See ante, i. 232. See ante, ii, 219. Cheyne's English Malady, or a Treatise of Nervous Diseases of All Kinds, 1733. He recommended a milk, seed, and vegetable diet; by seed he apparently meant any kind of grain. He did not take meat. He drank green tea. At one time he weighed thirty-two stones.

Pecson crossed himself gravely and arose, restraining his clownish laugh with an effort, at the same time mimicking a certain Augustinian preacher, then famous, and beginning in a murmur, as though he were reading a text. "Si tripa plena laudal Deum, tripa famelica laudabit fratres if the full stomach praises God, the hungry stomach will praise the friars.

Perhaps there are letters from you in Cleveland Court; I shall send to Sir Wm. to enquire. The great event at Almack's is that Scott has left off play; he is, I suppose, the plena cruons hirundo. I am not quite satisfied that Sir J. Lambert is punctual in forwarding my letters; pray let me know it.

I am a sinner, but not the second time; for the love of Jesus, not the second time! Ave Maria, gratia plena, ora pro me!" The others did not understand what he was saying. Indeed, they paid little attention to him. They saw he was frightened, and thought it was with fear. They were already discussing what ought to be done about the fracas.

The Oxford movement was broken, it failed; our wrecks are scattered on every shore: "Quæ regio in terris nostri non plena laboris?" But what was it, this liberalism, as Dr. Newman saw it, and as it really broke the Oxford movement?

I could have found in my heart to have wrested the whip out of the hands of the young negro, and applied it with all my might to him, and his old villain of a master, and father of these poor children, as I soon found he was. My patience was almost gone when the second girl received a lash for her "Plena Gratia."

I recollected the witty saying of Populia, who was never unfaithful to her husband except when she was with child; "Non tollo vectorem," said she, "nisi navi plena." I felt certain that I was not loved, and the thought grieved me; and I considered that it would be unworthy of me to love one whom I could no longer hope to possess.