frons

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Hoc uno infelix, et felix cetera; nusquam Laetior aut caeli frons geniusve soli.'

From The Lady of the Lake by Scott, Walter, Sir

For the word comes from the Latin frons, "the forehead."

From Stories That Words Tell Us by O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)

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

Tolle vultum, Magdalena, Redivivum obstupe: Vide frons quam sit amœna, Quinque plagas adspice; Fulgem sicut margarit�, Ornamenta rov� vit�: Alleluia resonet!

From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle

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