distich
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
These dates are given in the following memorial distich with a frank indifference to quantity and metre— “Vult Crux, Lucia, Cinis, Charismata dia Quod det vota pia quarta sequens feria.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
The distich "Nostra damus," &c. was the playful composition, according to La Monnoye, of the celebrated Genevan reformer Th�odore de B�ze.
FitzGerald's verse was evidently also influenced by distich 1866 of the Mantik ut-tair.
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar
The man, who was in the midst of his pea-and-thimble process, no sooner heard the last word of the distich, than he turned an alarmed look in the direction of where I stood.
From International Short Stories English by Various
The rhyme was designed to honour the poet's father, who set the forest here; but accident must have stayed the stone-cutter's hand and left the distich incomplete.
From A West Country Pilgrimage by Phillpots, Eden
