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  • Pliny tells us that it was called bruma; and, like Servius, places it on the 8th of the calends of January.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Consequently, this season, from the shortness of the day, is called bruma or dies brumales.

    The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

  • La tierra se diluye, escapa, hundida en la blanca ceguera de la bruma.

    veruscio Diary Entry veruscio 2008

  • Estoy en la fuente, en los libros, en las glicinas del jardín, en las plazas, en las risas, en la bruma.

    veruscio Diary Entry veruscio 2008

  • [6042] Tam apta nuptiis quam bruma messibus, as welcome to a young woman as snow in harvest, saith Nevisanus: Et si capis juvenculam, faciet tibi cornua: marry a lusty maid and she will surely graft horns on thy head.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • And was there frostwork about and thick weather and hice, soon calid, soon frozen, cold on warm but moistly dry, and a boatshaped blanket of bruma air-sighs and hellstohns and flammballs and vodashouts and every — thing to please everybody? —

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Sicque illi tant鵰 qui san� paucissimi sunt, communi cum bobus tecto in bruma vti quidem non gaudent, sed coguntur.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Sicque illi tantùm qui sanè paucissimi sunt, communi cum bobus tecto in bruma vti quidem non gaudent, sed coguntur.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • 'Caesaris imperio restituendus eras.' ille quidem dixit; sed me iam, Care, niuali sexta relegatum bruma sub axe uidet.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • _EP_ IV xiii 39-40 'sed me iam, Care, niuali/_sexta_ relegatum bruma sub axe uidet'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

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