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- noun Plural form of
bucolic .
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In modern times the term "bucolics" has not often been specifically given by the poets to their pastorals; the main exception being that of Ronsard, who collected his eclogues under the title of "Les Bucoliques."
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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I wish all the subsequent memories were innocent flower-child bucolics.
HIGH ON ARRIVAL MACKENZIE PHILLIPS 2009
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I wish all the subsequent memories were innocent flower-child bucolics.
HIGH ON ARRIVAL MACKENZIE PHILLIPS 2009
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I wish all the subsequent memories were innocent flower-child bucolics.
HIGH ON ARRIVAL MACKENZIE PHILLIPS 2009
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Meantime, my hat is spoiled in coming hither, and you have the effrontery to write bucolics to me during the most frightful weather of the year.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various
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The most celebrated collection of bucolics in antiquity is that of Theocritus, of which about thirty, in the Doric dialect, and mainly written in hexameter verse, have been preserved.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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He seemed a little disposed to flaunt his bucolics upon the town, his hat, his necktie, his boots and gaiters, were of so countrified a fashion, and yet he looked somehow more of a gentleman than Bommaney.
Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray David Christie Murray
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He accepted Riese's printing of _Passer_ as a proper name ( 'M. Petronius Passer' is mentioned at Varro _RR_ III 2 2), and took the passage to mean 'He wrote bucolics, or, as Ovid puts it, he went back to
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Latin and Croatian and produced many varieties of literature: the drama, lyrics, epics, bucolics, comedies, religious, and gypsy poetry.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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When Missouri declared for silver, with a candidate who represented the silver issue wholly and whose character endeared him especially to the bucolics everywhere, the silver sentiment became a political force to reckon with the stampede that ended with the nomination of Mr. Bryan was started.
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