pugnus

Updated: May 29, 2025

And to speak truth, it is to the other but as palma to pugnus, part of the same thing more large.... Myself am like the miller of Huntingdon, that was wont to pray for peace amongst the willows; for while the winds blew, the wind-mills wrought, and the water-mill was less customed. So I see that controversies of religion must hinder the advancement of sciences.

R. W. (Richard William) Church - Bacon

So there, upon the bridge, the fight raged fiercer than before; men smote and died, until of Sir Pertolepe's garrison there none remained save they that littered that narrow causeway. "Now by the good Saint Giles my patron saint," gasped Giles, wiping the sweat from him, "here was a good and sweet affray, tall brother a very proper fight, pugnus et calcibus while it lasted "

Jeffery Farnol - Beltane the Smith