frons
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The shadow then thrown across— "Sed frons læta parum"— is well given, with a variation, by— "But gloomy were his eyes."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
Linschoten repeats the like, and one of his plates is entitled Habitus Abissinorum quibus loco Baptismatis frons inuritur.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry
I., a, frons; b, clypeus; c, labrum; d, epipharynx.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
Ah, neget illa, negent illi: nam quem aethera mallent Isti oculi? aut frons haec quae magis astra velit?
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
For the word comes from the Latin frons, "the forehead."
From Stories That Words Tell Us by O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)