"Bellis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Crassicornis) are quite beautiful enough to give a beginner amusement: but there are two others which are not uncommon, and of such exceeding loveliness, that it is worth while to take a little trouble to get them. The one is Dianthus, which I have already mentioned; the other Bellis, the sea-daisy, of which there is an excellent description and plates in Mr. Gosse's "Rambles in ...
— Glaucus; or The Wonders of the Shore • Charles Kingsley
... about thee standis; Wise be the people that within thee dwellis; Fresh is thy ryver with his lusty strandis; Blith be thy chirches, wele sownyng be thy bellis; Rich be thy merchauntis in substaunce that excellis; Fair be their wives, right lovesom, white and small; Clere be thy virgyns, lusty under kellis: London, thou art the flour ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy
... prophecy (the mixture of iron and clay) was accomplished, according to St. Jerom, in his own time. Sicut enim in principio nihil Romano Imperio fortius et durius, ita in fine rerum nihil imbecillius; quum et in bellis civilibus et adversus diversas nationes, aliarum gentium barbararum auxilio indigemus, (Opera, tom. ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 3 • Edward Gibbon
... I. 466, [Greek: Isto nyn dory thouron hoto periosion allon kydos eni ptolemoisin aeiromai, oude m' ophellei Zeus toson, hossation per emon dory]. Statius Theb. ix. 649—"ades o mihi dextera tantum Tu praesens bellis, et inevitable numen, Te voco, te solam superum contemptor adoro." See Cerda on Virg. AEn. ...
— Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes • Aeschylus
... born and were abiding in the Forest were to "visit" the mines, in working which the distance of a stone's throw was always to be kept, and property in them might be bequeathed. The miners' clothes and light are mentioned, and the standard measure called "bellis," to the exclusion of carts and "waynes." It alludes to "the court of the wood," at the "speech" before the Verderers, but more particularly to the court for debtors at St. Briavel's Castle, and to the mine court, as regulated by the ...
— The Forest of Dean - An Historical and Descriptive Account • H. G. Nicholls |
