comae

His death could not have comae at a more convenient time, nor in a more perfectly explainable way!

Wired Top Stories John Abell 2008

Nam neque arborum comae pro pecorum tuguriis factae meridie per aestatem, optabilem exhibentes umbram oves ita reficiunt, ac scripturarum lectio afflictas angore animas solatur et recreat.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

A man would certainly make a very considerable fortune and figure in the world, whose modesty and timidity should often, as bashfulness always does (put him in the deplorable and lamentable situation of the pious AEneas, when obstupuit, steteruntque comae; et vox faucibus haesit!).

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

I was determined to be, what I thought, civil; I made fine low bows, and placed myself below everybody; but when I was spoken to, or attempted to speak myself, obstupui, steteruntque comae, et vox faucibus haesit.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

During the celebration of Mass a simple priest may not wear any head-covering -- whether biretta, pileolus, or full wig (comae fictitiae) -- but the bishop may allow him to wear a plain perruque as a protection for his hairless scalp.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

Pierius uotum iuuenis cupit. hanc ego formae egregium mirata decus cui gloria patrum et generis certabat honos, tellure cadentem excepi fouique sinu; nec colla genasque110 comere nec pingui crinem deducere amomo cessauit mea, nate, manus. mihi dulcis imago prosiluit. celsae procul aspice frontis honores suggestumque comae.

The Marriage of Stella and Violentilla 1912

Non sic prata nouo uere decentia aestatis calidae despoliat uapor, 5 saeuit solstitio cum medius dies et noctes breuibus praecipitant rotis languescunt folio et lilia pallido: ut gratae capiti deficiunt comae et fulgor teneris qui radiat genis10 momento rapitur nullaque non dies formonsi spolium corporis abstulit. res est forma fugax: quis sapiens bono confidat fragili? dum licet, utere. tempus te tacitum subruit, horaque15 semper praeterita deterior subit.

Fatal Beauty 1912

If it is dry the accused is held to be guilty -- fear has stopped the secretion of saliva -- obstupui, stetetuntque comae, et vox faucibus haesit.

Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911

Their word for the outlying hamlets, they say, is comae, whereas Athenians call them demes -- thus assuming that comedians got the name not from their _comoe_ or revels, but from their strolling from hamlet to hamlet, lack of appreciation keeping them out of the city.

Poetics. English 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle 1911

As often as the thought had comae to me I had thrust it away.

The Betrayal 1906