distich

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The man, who was in the midst of his pea-and-thimble process, no sooner heard the last word of the distich, than he turned an alarmed look in the direction of where I stood.

From International Short Stories English by Various

A like popular distich about this later visitation is quoted by Adam of Murimuth: C ter erant mille decies sex unus, et ille, Luce tua Maure, vehemens fuit impetus aur�.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward

"The following distich," he added, "should now become your motto: "Inveni portum.

From The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Vol. III (of VI), "The Eternal Quest" The First Complete and Unabridged English Translation, Illustrated with Old Engravings by Seingalt, Jacques Casanova de

Now, this principle of pure rhythm at the end of each strain, is peculiarly impressed upon the hexameter-pentameter distich.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various

FitzGerald's verse was evidently also influenced by distich 1866 of the Mantik ut-tair.

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar