distich

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The following distich is used in this game: Higgory, diggory, digg'd, My sow has pigg'd.

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

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

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

From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Howe, Julia Ward

The story which inspired it begins at distich No. 972, and is as follows: An observer of spiritual things approached the sea And said �O sea, why are you blue?

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar

This distich alludes to the quantity of old coins found near those places.

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