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"'Montes et colles, silvaeque et flumina, fontes, Praeruptaeque rupes, pariter vallesque profondae Francorum lugete genus: quod munere christi, Imperio celsum jacet ecce in pulvere mersum. "That was written in the eighth century when the language was becoming terribly corrupt; when it was hideous with popular idiom barbarously and recklessly employed.
You never did that, Sperrit. This was Mr. Fisher, M.F.H., enlarging the breach Midmore had made. 'No, confound him! said the father testily. 'Go on, sir! Injecto ter pulvere you've kicked half the ditch into my eye already.
"Yes, twenty thousand dollars; but the victory yields other fruit quite as valuable to me. Judges McLemore and Mayfield were on the defence, and it cost me a very hard fight: literally Palma non sine pulvere. The jury deliberated only twenty minutes, and of course I am much gratified."
A fragment has been preserved: -Hiberno pulvere, verno luto, grandia farra Camille metes- Sat. v. 20; Festus, Ep. v. Flaminius, p. 93, M.; Serv. on Virg. II. VIII. Appius Claudius II. VIII. Rome and the Romans of This Epoch
Poor me, indeed, you will find in bed; and I shall have nothing for you but my syringe and vessel of dishonor: but so soon as I have gained a little strength, I will have my pistols charged CUM PULVERE PYRIO; and multiplying the mass by the square of the velocity, so as to reduce the action and you to zero, I will put some lead in your head; it appears to have need of it.
He heard Latin words, which he did not understand, pass over him, so slowly that he was able to catch them one by one: "Qui dormiunt in terrae pulvere, evigilabunt; alii in vitam aeternam, et alii in approbrium, ut videant semper." A child's voice said: "De profundis." The grave voice began again: "Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine." The child's voice responded: "Et lux perpetua luceat ei."
The planters Burnside McClellan nominated for President Awful events approaching Dictatorship dawns on the horizon The catastrophe. O God, O God! to witness how, by the hands of Lincoln-Seward-McClellan, this noblest human structure is crumbled and, perhaps, soon Pulvere vix tactæ poterunt monstrare ruinæ.
I have found a much shorter and more easy way, by the advice of the good friends I had in my younger days, to free myself from any such ambition, and to sit still: "Cui sit conditio dulcis sine pulvere palmae:" Horace, Ep., i.
Gall; the books were not found where, Bracciolini admits, they ought to have been, on account of their excellence, on the shelves of the library, but where slugs and toads are more frequently looked for and found than books and manuscripts, in an exceedingly dirty and dark dungeon at the bottom of a tower and one of these books, Quintilian, though described as "sound and safe," is also described as being "saturated with moisture and begrimed with mire," as if it had been made dirty expressly for the occasion of the recovery: "Quintilianum comperimus, adhuc salvum et incolumem, plenum tamen situ et pulvere squalentem.
Garth, speaking of the mischiefs done by quacks, has these expressions: "Non tamen telis vulnerat ista agyrtarum colluvies, sed theriaca quadam magis perniciosa, non pyrio, sed pulvere nescio quo exotico certat, non globulis plumbeis, sed pilulis aeque lethalibus interficit." This was certainly thought fine by the author, and is still admired by his biographer.
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