"Visa" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... visa est Londonia quasi nova Jerusalem monilibus ornata."—Chron. Edward I and II (Rolls Series No. 76), ...
— London and the Kingdom - Volume I • Reginald R. Sharpe
... the visa plate. The E-Stat asteroid was of a reasonable size, but in their eyes it was a bleak, torn mote of ...
— Plague Ship • Andre Norton
... ventum est parvi Rubiconis ad undas, ingens visa duci patriae trepidantis imago, clara per obscuram voltu maestissima noctem turrigero canos effundens vertice crines caesarie lacera nudisque adstare lacertis et gemitu permixta loqui: 'quo tenditis ultra? quo fertis mea signa, viri? si iure ...
— Post-Augustan Poetry - From Seneca to Juvenal • H.E. Butler
... who are making morning calls, a gentleman assists them up the steps, rings the bell, follows them into the room, and waits till they have finished their salutations, unless he has a part to perform in presenting them. Ladies should always be the first to rise in terminating a visa, and when they have made their adieux their cavaliers repeat the ceremony, and ...
— How To Behave: A Pocket Manual Of Republican Etiquette, And Guide To Correct Personal Habits • Samuel R Wells
... it desirable to write an account of the transit, Horrox prepared an elegant Latin treatise, entitled 'Venus in Sole Visa'—'Venus seen in the Sun;' but not knowing what steps to take with regard to its publication, he requested Crabtree to communicate with his bookseller and obtain his ...
— The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' • Thomas Orchard
... he hurried down a side corridor, before he moved on slowly to his own box of office. Once inside he sat for a long unhappy time staring at the wall and seeing nothing but the pictures produced by his thoughts. Then he pressed a button and read off the symbols which flashed on a small visa-screen set in his desk. Another button pushed, and he picked up a hand mike to relay an order which might postpone trouble for a while. Ashe was far too valuable a man to lose, and his emotions could boil him ...
— The Defiant Agents • Andre Alice Norton
... nova, quos iunctos esse censuit e quadam quasi impulsione oblata extrinsecus, quam ille [Greek: phantasian], nos visum appellemus licet, et teneamus hoc verbum quidem: erit enim utendum in reliquo sermone saepius. Sed ad haec, quae visa sunt et quasi accepta sensibus, adsensionem adiungit animorum, quam esse volt in nobis positam et voluntariam. 41. Visis non omnibus adiungebat fidem, sed iis solum, quae propriam quandam haberent declarationem ...
— Academica • Marcus Tullius Cicero |
