urbs

Example Sentences

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Maybe, on the golden hills of the Urbs Beata, we shall find joys far passing the sweetest here, kept for that undefouled company which shall sue the Lamb whithersoever He goeth.

From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Holt, Emily Sarah

The metre of three hymns, Tibi Christe splendor Patris, and the Urbs Jerusalem and Angularis fundamentum were changed.

From The Divine Office by Quigley, Edward J.

There was no need of his remaining longer; for he could do nothing more for Richard Pynson, when he had clasped hands with Margery Lovell at the gates of the Urbs Beata.

From Mistress Margery by Holt, Emily Sarah

At Urbs Italica, 'the camp of the Italians,' there still exists a grass-grown, mouldered amphitheatre, the only remnant of a mighty town.

From The Story of Seville by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)

Is not its illustrious ancestry evident in the nobleness and high-mindedness of the present Urbs Augustan generation?

From Dona Perfecta by Serrano, Mary J. (Mary Jane)