sordida

Although 179 highland bird species have been recorded for the mountain, species recorded in the upper zones are few in number, although they include occasional lammergeier Gypaetus barbatus, mainly on the Shira ridge, hill chat Cercomela sordida, Hunter's cisticola Cisticola hunteri, and scarlet-tufted malachite sunbird Nectarinia johnstoni.

Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania 2009

Quid quod materiam praebet causamque jocandi: Si toca sordida sit, Juv.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Huic pleraque humilia, et sordida, et ex medio petita: illi omnia recondita, splendida, excelsa conveniunt.

A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus

Corycium mihi surgit olus malvaeque supinae et non sollicitos missura papavera somnos. praeterea sive alitibus contexere fraudem seu magis inbelles libuit circumdare cervos aut tereti lino pavidum subducere piscem, hos tantum novere dolos mea sordida rura.

Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

Volcani ruere et clausis resonare cauernis festinantis opus: non est tam sordida diuis cura neque extremas ius est dimittere in artis25 sidera; subducto regnant sublimia caelo illa neque artificum curant tractare laborem.

Poetry and Science Anonymous 1912

In his rebus est vera perfectio et verus cultus Dei, non est in caelibatu, aut mendicitate, aut veste sordida.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

In his rebus est vera perfectio et verus cultus Dei, non est in caelibatu, aut mendicitate, aut veste sordida.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

The Abyssinian longclaw is considered near-endemic to this ecoregion, as are the moorland chat (Cercomela sordida), Abyssinian waxbill (Estrilda ochrogaster), moorland francolin (Francolinus psilolaemus), Rueppell's chat (Myrmecocichla melaena), ankober serin (Serinus ankoberensis), and spot-breasted lapwing (Vanellus melanocephalus).

Ethiopian montane moorlands 2008

Muses are now banished in this bastard age, ad sordida tuguriola, to meaner persons, and confined alone almost to universities.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

[768] tempora infecta et adulatione sordida, as in Tiberius 'times, such base flattery, stupend, parasitical fawning and colloguing, &c. brawls, conflicts, desires, contentions, it would ask an expert Vesalius to anatomise every member.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007