Word: jus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from Caesar to his noble and valiant adversary Cassivellaunus, or that by any mystical communion a spark of the Virgilian light of empire was tended through the centuries in Merlin's cave. Yet somehow the grand ideals of Roman dominion have not been lost in the modern world: jus, the conception of a law that should transcend the limitations of the small people who first conceived it, and become at last the guarantor of justice to all sorts and conditions of men; imperium, the principle of a dominion that can enable all manner of races, languages and faiths...
...restaurant kitchens to a crowded basement dressing room to shed his sweat-drenched shirt and gnaw barbecued ribs served on paper plates. On hand are a trunk of linen handkerchiefs, a dozen pairs of shoes ("They got to cool off"), and a typewriter. He says his hobby is "jus' typin'"-a typewriter has so many more keys to play with than a trumpet...
...peacetime the British Mediterranean Fleet used to anchor on its annual vacation cruise, was captured by a parachute unit dropped there by mistake. In sun-drenched Hyères, where the girls are dark and Saracen and the streets are lined with palms, the Germans still held. Fréjus, where Julius Caesar planted supplies for Gaul, was taken the first day. Saint-Raphael, a modest fishing village gone garish with the trappings of a modern coast resort, was quickly captured, too. But Cannes, its luxury hotels, meager beach, its dreams of gambling and fish, yachts and flowers still belonged...
Alexander R (i) ves got news the other day that another of his Virginia Belles got married and R(i)ves said immediately, "Ah jus gotta get me some leave soon oah m' whole stable will be a-goin tuh the dawgs...
Last week he had an additional worry: his reed supply. The cane from which oboe reeds are made grows only in the glens around the town of Fréjus in southern France. Until the defeat of Hitler, Tabuteau's career rests on a dwindling hoard of a few hundred twigs of cane kept on a Philadelphia shelf...