Catonian

Catonian sentences, or at any rate out of the very heart of Michael

Don Quixote 2002

Scant days before the end of that year Livia Drusa gave birth to a boy, Marcus Porcius Cato Salonianus Junior — a skinny, screeching baby with the Catonian red hair, a long neck, and a nose which sat in the middle of his homely newborn face like a huge hooked beak, utterly inappropriate.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

The Catonian beak of a nose ill became her, but she did have a beautiful pair of dark grey eyes, and by nature she was a nice person.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

The determined enmity of the consuls to each other, the high-handed conduct of Cæsar in regard to the senate, his ultimate appointment to the unusual period of five years 'government of the Gauls and Illyricum, were so many blows at the old constitution; and scarcely less offensive to the Catonian

The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero

That Catonian figure, with placid countenance and solemn gravity of feature, would readily deceive any one as to the true mental organism within.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

The two royal children had once secretly recited, in the house of their stern father, the parts of French tragedies; now their hearts beat again in the single thought of freeing themselves by a Catonian death from a life full of disappointment, confusion, and suffering.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various

Manon's songs came to his head, and the sentimental melancholy of eighteenth century Paris with its gambling houses in the Palais Royal where people dishonored themselves in the presence of their stern Catonian fathers, and its billets doux written at little gilt tables, and its coaches lumbering in covered with mud from the provinces through the Porte d'Orleans and the Porte de Versailles; the Paris of Diderot and Voltaire and

Three Soldiers John Dos Passos 1933

These noble animals unite use and beauty in such measure that the censor must be of Catonian severity who can refuse them his praise.

Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life) William Dean Howells 1878

These noble animals unite use and beauty in such measure that the censor must be of Catonian severity who can refuse them his praise.

Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878

Before long he even made jokes in a Catonian manner; jokes that were not peculiarly witty, but somewhat gruff and boorish, yet significant of a resigned and self-contented mind.

Democracy, an American novel Henry Adams 1878