distich
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Furnished with the English letters corresponding to these symbols, one may, if sufficiently curious, translate each distich as one finds it.
From A West Country Pilgrimage by Eden Phillpots
More metrical excellence and sense can be found in the distich: "Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow?" than in any of the products of his brain that he has given us.
From Every-Day Errors of Speech by L. P. Meredith
"Yes," she admitted; "I suppose that's how it goes;" and she crooned the distich over, as if singing to herself.
From True and Other Stories by George Parsons Lathrop
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 J. O. (James Orchard) Halliwell-Phillipps
Over the door of her sleeping-room she inscribed the distich which Virgil has put into the mouth of Dido.
From The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
