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OMNE TEMPUS AETATIS: 'every season of life'; so in 55 extremum tempus aetatis; 70 breve tempus aetatis. The opposite phrase aetas temporis is very rare; it occurs in Propertius 1, 4, 7. CETERIS: neuter adjective used as a noun, equivalent to ceteris rebus 'the other matters'; i.e. the political troubles hinted at above.
"Why should you imagine that I can't read your mind? Is it so extremely complex?" She spoke in a rich, lingering, musical voice, which delighted him to listen to. "No, but you have no breve." "Well, but haven't I a sorb, which is better?" And she pointed to the eye on her brow. "What is your name?" "Oceaxe." "And where do you come from?" "Ifdawn."
This is a description of the funeral-tent of Queen Isi em Kheb, contemporary of the wise Solomon, mother-in-law of the Shishak who besieged Jerusalem and "carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made." "La vie est brève: Un peu d'espoir, Un peu de rêve Et puis Bon soir!"
Her cousin had pushed her one side as if she was of no value. Katie was a very little child, but she was old enough to feel aggrieved. She went into the parlor, and threw herself face downwards on the sofa, thinking. "Somebody leave me alone. O, dear! Some naughty folks don't think I'm any gooder than a baby." Then the poor little thing ran out to "breve the fleshy air."
I go wid you now, dis berry minute, en I neber breve easy till we way, way off enywhar, I doan keer whar. Oh, Chunk, you doan know w'at been gwine on en I darsn't tell you twel we gits way off." "I isn't feared," replied Chunk easily. "Dat's kaze you doan know. I des been tremblin' stiddy sence las' night en I'se feared hit begin eny minute now."
Ayah, in the mouth of a lisping baby, is one of the prettiest words of the East, and is learned as soon as papa and mamma, being equally easy of articulation. They are a macron diacritic, a dash-shaped symbol and a breve diacritic, a u-shaped symbol.
The secretary, happening to know this, advised the president to begin with the poisoning case. The secretary was a Liberal, even a Radical, in opinion. Breve was a Conservative; the secretary disliked him, and envied him his position. "I have already said that I cannot do it without witnesses, and so I shall say to the Court." "Dear me, what does it matter?"
See how bright it is!" she said, laying it against the white background of Romola's fingers. "They get dim, and then he lets me cut another when his hair is grown; and I put it with the Breve, because sometimes he is away a long while, and then I think it helps to take care of me." A slight shiver passed through Romola as the curl was laid across her fingers.
"It's wrong for me to do anything which might bring trouble to you or Chunk; but I was so eager to thank this other good Samaritan " "Well, den, sit by de ladder dar, en Miss Lou kin sit on de do'step. Den a body kin feel tings ain' comin' ter smash 'fo' dey kin breve."
This was too much for the veteran. He was very properly accustomed to beat 4/4 on the square; but it is also the custom of such conductors to beat 6/4 after the manner of 6/8, that is, with an Alla breve beat two in the bar.
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