Word: rustication
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Poem. Rustic Homer and urban Virgil used roundly to invoke the muses before composing an epic. Poet Stephen Vincent Benét, however, narrowly and specifically invokes the "American Muse," by crying, "you are the buffalo-ghost, the broncho-ghost ... a friend, an enemy, a sacred hag with two oceans in her medicine bag . . . and you are . . . the cheap car parked by the station door. . . ." A brief prelude concerning the Yankee slaver that bears its black cargo of misery to America, and quickly the artist sets himself to the stupendous task of setting the panoramic scene, North and South. From...
...dining hall is separate, across the stream, by pine-needle path and rustic footbridge. Small owls and bears, wrought in bronze, light the way. In the dining-room, the furniture is heavy mahogany, carved with a cloverleaf pattern. The 14-foot table seats 30 people...
...evil contradiction of his sound intellectual belief that nothing was eternal but the past, that is to say, death. Pondering on these things, wondering too if justice consisted of more than sympathy, the professor trudged through the fog, down by the river, and home again by the rustic bridge. At the gate a servant awaited him eagerly to say that Lorie had cried buckets and was "all broke up," because she had had to go to bed, leaving Hergesell at the party with his blonde. The professor rushes to his darling, comforts her in vain. He alone understood that...
Rachele Guidi Mussolini once served as a lusty taproom wench at the rustic inn of good Papa Allesandro Mussolini, sire of Benito. Wise Papa Allesandro warned the wench against his son. "Do not let yourself think of that young man," he is said to have said, "It would be better to throw yourself under a train. Married to him you will have neither happiness nor peace...
...being pope in Tibet of present day Buddhism. A new Buddha is, however, predicted for each cycle, and it is such, evidently, that Jâli for a time thought himself. His exotic career at Cambridge is delightfully Zuleika Dobsonesque, and artificial as his rustic life in the Bois...