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Again, the redent the 'tooth within tooth' of a French tracery may be necessary, to bite its glass. But the cusp, cuspis, spiny or spearlike point of a thirteenth century illumination, is not in the least necessary to transfix the parchment.
This light-armed people, relying more on their activity than on their strength, cannot struggle for the field of battle, enter into close engagement, or endure long and severe actions, such as the poet describes: "Jam clypeo clypeus, umbone repellitur umbo, Ense minax ensis, pede pes, et cuspide cuspis."
"Nec volucres plumæ faciunt nec cuspis Achillem! Construe me that then if you will!" Basterga shrugged his shoulders. "Fine feathers do not make fine birds!" he said. "If you apply it to me," he continued with a contemptuous face, "I " "Oh, no, to your company," Claude answered. Self-control comes hardly to the young, and he had already forgotten his rôle.