ungula
Example Sentences
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The earth shook with the stamping of the hoofs, "Quadrupedante putrem crepitu quatit ungula campum."
From Dr. Dumany's Wife by Mór Jókai
Onomatopœia is the suiting of sound to sense; as,— quadrupedante putrem sonitū quatit ungula campum, 'And shake with horny hoofs the solid ground.'
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
The English verse which we call heroic consists of no more than ten syllables; the Latin hexameter sometimes rises to seventeen; as, for example, this verse in Virgil:- "Pulverulenta putrem sonitu quatit ungula campum."
From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by John Dryden
The Governor's life-guard, in splendid uniform, prancing to and fro, 'Quadrupedante putrem sonitu quatit ungula campum.'
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
In another famous onomatopoeic line— "Quadrupedante putrem sonitu quatit ungula campum" —Virgil imitates the sound of a galloping horse, and the shaking of the ground beneath its hoofs.
From Grain and Chaff from an English Manor by Arthur H. Savory
