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Pliny tells us that it was called bruma; and, like Servius, places it on the 8th of the calends of January.
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Consequently, this season, from the shortness of the day, is called bruma or dies brumales.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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La tierra se diluye, escapa, hundida en la blanca ceguera de la bruma.
veruscio Diary Entry veruscio 2008
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Estoy en la fuente, en los libros, en las glicinas del jardín, en las plazas, en las risas, en la bruma.
veruscio Diary Entry veruscio 2008
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[6042] Tam apta nuptiis quam bruma messibus, as welcome to a young woman as snow in harvest, saith Nevisanus: Et si capis juvenculam, faciet tibi cornua: marry a lusty maid and she will surely graft horns on thy head.
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And was there frostwork about and thick weather and hice, soon calid, soon frozen, cold on warm but moistly dry, and a boatshaped blanket of bruma air-sighs and hellstohns and flammballs and vodashouts and every — thing to please everybody? —
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Sicque illi tant鵰 qui san� paucissimi sunt, communi cum bobus tecto in bruma vti quidem non gaudent, sed coguntur.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Sicque illi tantùm qui sanè paucissimi sunt, communi cum bobus tecto in bruma vti quidem non gaudent, sed coguntur.
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'Caesaris imperio restituendus eras.' ille quidem dixit; sed me iam, Care, niuali sexta relegatum bruma sub axe uidet.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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_EP_ IV xiii 39-40 'sed me iam, Care, niuali/_sexta_ relegatum bruma sub axe uidet'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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