frons

Example Sentences

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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

Compare Lucan's use of frons, nec frons erit ulla senatus, where it seems to mean boldness.

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas

Redivivum aspice; Vide frons quam sit amœna, Quinque plagas inspice; Fulgent, sic ut margaritæ, 533 / 473 Ornamenta novæ vitæ.

From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Brown, Theron

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

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

This assembly, which overthrows kings and kingdoms, has not even the physiognomy and aspect of a grave legislative body,—nec color imperii, nec frons erat ulla senatûs.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund