frons

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Hence, also, when we meet with the expression, gemina frons, we must understand that the volume had a ticket at each end.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)

For the word comes from the Latin frons, "the forehead."

From Stories That Words Tell Us by O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)

Hoc uno infelix, et felix cetera; nusquam Laetior aut caeli frons geniusve soli.'

From The Lady of the Lake by Scott, Walter, Sir

The shadow then thrown across— "Sed frons læta parum"— is well given, with a variation, by— "But gloomy were his eyes."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

Effingit senem stantem: ossa, musculi, nervi, venae, rugae etiam ut spirantis apparent: rari et cedentes capilli, lata frons, contracta facies, exile collum.

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund