georgic

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A dog is “passant, sejant then couchant,” and beekeepers go about “their Georgic business…mobled in muslin, calm-browed comb-setters and swarm-handlers of the scattered thorps.”

From Slate • Mar. 3, 2014

White Star will contribute its fleet of ten "ic" ships, including Majestic, Olympic, Homeric, Georgic and Britannic.

From Time Magazine Archive

Against the crack ships of Sir Percy's fleet, the Berengaria, Aquitania and Mauretania, Lord Essendon pits his Majestic, "world's biggest ship," his Olympic, his new Georgic.

From Time Magazine Archive

Coming up from Quarantine on the Georgic, Sir Arthur humorously told Manhattan ship reporters that he could not recall the number offhand, that he did seem to remember the final digit as a 6.

From Time Magazine Archive

I fear that very few planters of fruit trees think of following the routine which Virgil describes in his second Georgic, as practised by the careful orchardist, when transplanting.

From Grain and Chaff from an English Manor by Savory, Arthur H.