distich

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Somnus ut sit levis, sit tibi cœna brevis, is the ancient axiom of our distich, That your sleep may be light, Let your supper be slight.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

I myself could have responded to the royal suspiria with one distich.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward

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

I recall from one of these a distich of some merit.

From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Howe, Julia Ward

At his third examination, he wrote beneath the signature which he had affixed to his testimony the following distich: "Que toujours, dans mon cœur, J�sus soit le vainqueur!"

From The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) by Marvin, Frederic Rowland