tympanum

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Tympanum says that the statement about the stick "is merely a blind, to which the old answer may well be applied, solvitur ambulando, or rather mergendo."

From A Tangled Tale by Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett)

I trust Tympanum will not test this in his own person, by taking the place of the man in Balbus' Essay!

From A Tangled Tale by Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett)

C. G. L., Nabob, Old Crow, and Tympanum assume that the number of yards in the length of the path is equal to the number of square-yards in the garden.

From A Tangled Tale by Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett)

Tympanum distinct except dorsally, its diameter 51.1 per cent that of eye, separated from eye by distance equal to diameter of tympanum.

From Descriptions of New Hylid Frogs From Mexico and Central America by Duellman, William E.

You may find the whole story sculptured on the Tympanum of the exquisite northern door of Notre Dame in Paris.

From Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance by Belloc, Hilaire