Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
pectus .
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Examples
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News at Eleven: Robert Fagles's ear for linguistic currency is evident in his working of one of many well-known lines from the fourth book, improbe Amor, quid non mortalia pectora cogis: Love, you tyrant!
News at Eleven: [Robert] Fagles's ear for linguistic currency Rus Bowden 2007
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[5356] Urimur, et coecum, pectora vulnus habent, and can hardly be discerned at first.
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Molliret Thracum pectora. — — — He now lies asleep,
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Optimum est amicum fidelem nancisci in quem secreta nostra infundamus; nihil aeque oblectat animum, quam ubi sint praeparata pectora, in quae tuto secreta descendant, quorum conscientia aeque ac tua: quorum sermo solitudinem leniat, sententia consilium expediat, hilaritas tristitiam dissipet, conspectusque ipse delectet.
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Viderunt oculi, rapuerunt pectora flammae; Ammon fell sick for
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Summo mane ululatum oriuntur, pectora percutientes,
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[4690] Improbe amor quid non mortalia pectora cogis?
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Nec saltent modo sed duo charissima pectora indissolubili mutuae benevolentiae nodo corpulent, ut nihil unquam eos incedere possit irae vel taedii.
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That impression of her beauty is still fixed in his mind, — [5341] haerent infixi pectora vultus; as he that is bitten with a mad dog thinks all he sees dogs — dogs in his meat, dogs in his dish, dogs in his drink: his mistress is in his eyes, ears, heart, in all his senses.
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Le Bretailleur, once said to me on such an occasion, and an opinion also of your peculiar merit, could have extorted such concessions; for he and all his family are, and have been, time out of mind, Mavortia pectora, as Buchanan saith,
Waverley 2004
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