Pulvis

“Pulvis et umbra sumus,” said Will, not looking at her as he spoke.

Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 2010

I could not bear to have her ten miles from me; and as for Pulvis

Pride and Prejudice 2004

Gentleman, 'and' Pulvis et Umbra, 'in the volume of collected essays called _Across the Plains_, the note of pathos which appears now and then in _Virginibus Puerisque_ is even more forcibly struck.

Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Moyes Black

I then determined upon a course of treatment as follows: Pulvis antimorialis, grs. 2; opium, gr.

A History of Caroline County, Virginia 1924

_Pulvis et umbra sumus_ -- "The tumult and the shouting dies."

Hocken and Hunken Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Louis XV. furniture to be made -- and most well made -- in Buffalo, and when the American public gives Stevenson an order for Pulvis et Umbra -- the same forces are at work in each case.

Emerson and Other Essays John Jay Chapman 1897

Keats sang of faëry landscapes and Chopin's was a virile spirit; the most cheerful writer under the sun was Stevenson, who even in his Pulvis et Umbra conjured up images of hope after a most pitiless arraignment of the universe and man.

Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890

Read those fine short sermons, _Pulvis et Umbra_ and _Aes Triplex_, the latter with its eloquent picture of sudden death in the fulness of power which was realized in Stevenson's own fate.

Modern English Books of Power George Hamlin Fitch 1888

_Pulvis et umbra_ -- that is the moral of "Pepys's Diary."

Lost Leaders Andrew Lang 1878

[R] Across the Plains: "Pulvis et Umbra" (abridged).

Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals William James 1876