anno Domini
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Liber hic furto mihi subreptus fuerat, anno domini mcccxxvi., in Kalend.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas
If you must have a string of loafers to prove that your attractions outwear anno domini, I must accept Hartley, and other Hartleys, so long as you continue to play the same game.
From The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery by Douie, Marjorie
He folds his hands and holds a small flag, on which is inscribed, "Iste faciebat anno domini 1508 Albertus D�rer Alemanus."
From Six Centuries of Painting by Davies, Randall
Thomas le Despenser, baro septimus, et Gloucestriæ comes tertius decimus et ultimus crudeliter interfectus 15o Januarii, anno domini 1400.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire by Massé, H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph)
As it stands, the date reads anno domini millesimo quatercentessimo octiesque uno atque insuper anno octavo, i. e. "in the year of our Lord the thousandth, four hundredth, AND EIGHT-TIMES-ONE, and thereafter the eighth year."
From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by Fiske, John
