distich

Example Sentences

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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

This distich is said by a boy who feels very lazy, yet wishes to exert himself.

From Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England by Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard)

He is again mentioned by Meres for his distich on king James's Furies & Lepanto. fol.

From A History of English Poetry: an Unpublished Continuation by Warton, Thomas

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

From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Howe, Julia Ward