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8 total sentences available.
"Would that your king AEneas here could stand, / driven by the gale that drove you to this strand! / Natheless, to scour the country, will I send / some trusty messengers, with strict command / to search through Libya to the furthest end, / lest, cast ashore, through town or lonely wood he wend."
Source: tatoeba (6796381)
Once more Anchises bids us cross the main / and seek Ortygia, and the god constrain / by prayer to pardon and advise, what end / of evils to expect? what woes remain? / What fate hereafter shall our steps attend? / What rest for toil-worn men, and whitherward to wend?
Source: tatoeba (6992747)
We wended our weary way westward.
Source: wiktionary
And ſtill her thought that ſhe was left alone / Uncompanied great viages to wende.
Source: wiktionary
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