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Whereupon Platt immediately turned to the witness and said, "Now, my man, attend: Rari nantes in gurgite vasto. You understand that, do you not?" "Yes, my lord," answered the witness, stroking his chin. Tindal, trying all he could to suppress his laughter, said: "Mr.
She has a beautiful body, terminating in two barking dogs and two serpent tails. Sometimes drowning men, the rari nantes in gurgite vasto, appear caught up in the coils of these tails. Below are dolphins. Scylla generally brandishes a rudder to show the manner in which she twists the course of ships. For varieties of her type see Monum. dell'Inst. Archeol. Rom., iii. Tavv. 52-3.
The Indians are so thinly scattered in this part of the country that there would be no impropriety in calling it uninhabited: Apparent rari errantes in gurgite vasto. It remains to be yet learnt whether this portion of Guiana be worth looking after with respect to its supposed mines. The mining speculations at present are flowing down another channel.
James Buchan, Claud Russell, and perhaps two or three more of and about the same period but "Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto." November 24. Talking of strangers, London held, some four or five years since, one of those animals who are lions at first, but by transmutation of two seasons become in regular course Boars! Ugo Foscolo by name, a haunter of Murray's shop and of literary parties.
Accordingly, I became aware of the isle of Karpathos, one of the Sporades Islands, only when Captain Nemo placed his finger over a spot on the world map and quoted me this verse from Virgil: Est in Carpathio Neptuni gurgite vates Caeruleus Proteus . . .* *Latin: "There in King Neptune's domain by Karpathos, his spokesman / is azure-hued Proteus . . . " Ed.
Give me leave to vary it a little: he was a good bishop, that was not the worst man; but if there were some of a better complexion, who yet, apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto, were very rarely discovered in their episcopal see; yet, 3. Look into their families, and they were for the most part the vilest in the diocese, a very nest of unclean birds; and, 4.
"Were fish remnants," asked Platt, "sometimes thrown into this reservoir of filth, such as old cods' heads with goggle eyes?" "Yes, my lord." "Rari nantes in gurgite vasto?" "Yes, my lord." Thesiger could stand it no longer. He had been writhing while the court had been roaring with laughter, which all the ushers in the universe could not suppress.
The history of the modern idea of TOLERATION could be written completely only after a larger amount of minute and special research than I am able here to bestow on the subject. Who shall say in the heads of what stray and solitary men, scattered through Europe in the sixteenth century, nantes rari in gurgite vasto, some form of the idea, as a purely speculative conception, may have been lodged?
It is not a little peculiar that the last of the classics, Claudius Claudianus, an Alexandrian Christian withal, describes the Gir, or Girrhaeus, with peculiarly Congoese features. In "De laud. Stilicho." "Gir, notissimus amnis AEthiopum, simili mentitus gurgite Nilum."
"Make haste, then, or we shall have to wait till the barge has gone by." Bywater took a cautious look round, saw nobody, and flung the parcel into the middle of the river. "Rari nantes in gurgite vasto!" ejaculated he. "Now, you gents, what be you throwing into the river?" The words came from Hudson, the porter to the Boundaries, who appeared to have sprung up from the ground.
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