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- noun Plural form of
pastoral .
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Examples
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Still, I know enough to say that the ace of academic pastorals is Richard Russo’s Straight Man.
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Still, I know enough to say that the ace of academic pastorals is Richard Russo’s Straight Man.
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Spenser's day it was the fashion to write poems called pastorals, in which the authors made believe that all their characters were shepherds and shepherdesses.
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_Aminta_ recalls the pastorals of Longos; and Daphne's words (Act I. Scene 1) suggest the most feeling outpourings of Kallimachos and
The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Alfred Biese 1893
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These "pastorals" of religious faith have a strangely archaic atmosphere, and I venture to think that my readers will enjoy the contemplation of such virgin minds, untouched by science, in their swift and effortless communings with the divine.
Modern Saints and Seers Jean Finot 1890
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In the south, especially at Marseilles, "pastorals" were played towards the end of the nineteenth century; they had, however, largely lost their sacred character, and had become a kind of review of the events of the year. {
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
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At the height of the recession, buyers felt their money might be safer if socked into soft-focus portraits and pastorals by Impressionists like Edgar Degas.
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Norman Perrin summarises four reasons that have lead critical scholarship to regard the pastorals as inauthentic.... earlychristianwritings.com
Bourgeois to speak in Dallas on women's ordination to priesthood | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010
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Robert Heinlein was certainly not offering bland pastorals.
Ten Minutes, That's It Benjamin Kral 2010
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At the start of the last market swell in 2005 and 2006, at least 18 of Monet's speckled pastorals sold for more than their high asking prices at major evening auctions, according to Art Research Technologies, a firm that tracks auction sales.
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