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- noun Plural form of
distich .
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Examples
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Schiller did his task in Latin distichs which have been preserved.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919 1901
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Schiller did his task in Latin distichs which have been preserved.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886
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In 533 A.D. it contained 100,000 distichs, that is, it was about the size it is now.] [Footnote 8: By the time the drama began the epic was become
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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When Kanmakan heard these distichs his sorrows surged up; his tears ran down his cheeks like freshets and flames of fire darted into his heart.
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The Mukhammas, cinquains or pentastichs (Night cmlxiv.), represents a stanza of two distichs and a hemistich in monorhyme, the fifth line being the “bob” or burden: each succeeding stanza affects a new rhyme, except in the fifth line, e.g., aaaab + ccccb + ddddb and so forth.
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Hence a host of secondary meanings as a book of Odes with distichs rhymed in alphabetical order and so forth.
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Moral advice and edifying sentiments are found in this series of distichs.
Peter Abelard King, Peter 2004
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I had already done and so sprinkle salt thereon, I contented myself with reciting the following two distichs:
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Accordingly I sent the following distichs and made peace:
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Despite of an this, however, mutual attachment of heart still subsisted between us because I heard him one day reciting in an assembly the following two distichs of my composition:
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