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Moreover Guillaume's coat was remarkably shabby, his air very unassuming, and his manner of life at the hotel frugality itself; such a playing of the vacuus viator might be meant to deceive not only the landlord of the Aquila Nera, but also any other predatory persons whom Guillaume should encounter in the course of his travels. Yes, some of it would be in notes.
Tomorrow morning a locksmith shall put locks and keys to your doors, and you will be the only person in the castle who is proof against thieves." I might have replied in the words of Juvenal, 'Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator', but I should have mortified him.
"If we are going to try this thing on, I shall want every sixpence." "You'll see if we're going to try it!" cried Tommy, rising radiant from table. "Only, mark you, Carthew, it must be all in your name. I have capital, you see; but you're all right. You can play vacuus viator, if the thing goes wrong." "I thought we had just proved it was quite safe," said Carthew.
A similar change of sound is exhibited in the case of the following formations, all of them of a very ancient kind: -pars portio-, -Mars- -Mors-, -farreum- ancient form for -horreum-, -Fabii- -Fovii-, -Valerius- -Volesus-, -vacuus- -vacivus-.
Mr. Purcell why I must have mistaken will you repeat the passage? "'With pleasure, my lord. I was just observing to your lordship and the jury, with the eloquent poet Hergesius, 'vacuus viator cantabit ante latronem. "'Greek, did you call it? "'Yes, my lord, of course I did. "'Why, Mr.
"You will experience some trouble in finding your way back," said he, "allow me to accompany you." When we had got out he gave me to understand that chance had led me to the "Orange Coffee House," the most disreputable house in London. "But you go there." "Yes, but I can say with Juvenal: "'Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.
To see good corn upon the rigs, And a gallow built to hang the Whigs, And the right restored where the right should be. Oh, that is the thing that would wanton me." "You may sing as loudly as you will, cantabit vacuus ," answered the Master; "but I believe the Marquis is too wise, at least too wary, to join you in such a burden.
For the custom is such, that no stranger shall come before him, but if he give him some manner thing, after the old law that saith, NEMO ACCEDAT IN CONSPECTU MEO VACUUS. And then the emperor saith to the religious men, that they withdraw them again, that they be neither hurt nor harmed of the great multitude of horses that come behind him.
Cantat vacuus . . . He slid a hand under the bed-clothes and rubbed the swelling on his leg, softly, wondering if condemned men felt as little perturbed or some of them on the eve of execution. He ceased rubbing and lay still again, staring up at the play of light on the rafters. Fine old timbers they were . . . solid English oak.
Many of the title deeds, as your lordship is aware, being obtained under old abbey charters, are in the learned languages; and we all know how home to our hearts and bosoms comes the beautiful line of the Greek poet 'vacuus viator cantabit ante latronem." The sound of the quotation roused the chief justice, who had been in some measure inattentive to the preceding part of the learned counsel's address, and he called out rather sharply, 'Greek!
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