velox

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Tu, quamcunque tibi velox indulserit annus,   Carpe diem; fugit, heu, non revocanda dies!

From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel

Our specimen of the Sharp-shinned Hawk is referred to velox on the basis of the reddish, maculated breast, sides, and thighs.

From Birds from Coahuila, Mexico by Urban, Emil K.

O. velox of Quennerstedt is probably the same as 0. kessleri, but differs in having three complete rows of ventral cirri.

From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)

Sit ipse Adam bene instructus quando respondere debeat, ne ad respondendum nimis sit velox aut nimis tardus, nec solum ipse, sed omnes persone sint.

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules

P. campan. umb. soon exp. and sulcate, yellowish grey, umbo yellowish, scurfy; g. adnate; s. white, woolly, thickened and floccose below; sp. 6-8 � 3. velox, Godey.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George