trabes

Cleopatra's palace in Egypt, — [3258] Crassumque trabes absconderat aurum, that the beholders were amazed.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

At sunset a lump of scirrhus before the sun was so dense that its dark shadow formed a brush like the trabes of a comet.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Cecropide, nec te committe rapacibus undis:/ferre trabes solidas

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

= Similar phrasing at _Met_ VIII 552-53 '[undae ...] ferre trabes solidas obliquaque _uoluere_ magno/murmure _saxa_ solent'.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

Et capita atq; trabes, et cum quadrante coronæ symmetria, & quicquid tecta superba facit.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

VTINAM ne in nemore Pelio securibus caesa accedisset abiegna ad terram trabes, neue inde nauis inchoandi exordium coepisset, quae nunc nominatur nomine

Medeae Nutrix 1912

The bodies seemed to burst as by explosion; but the largest, those from 1° to 1° 15 'in diameter, disappeared without scintillation, leaving behind them phosphorescent bands (trabes), exceeding in breadth fifteen or twenty minutes.

The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In John Lubbock 1873

At sunset a lump of scirrhus before the sun was so dense that its dark shadow formed a brush like the trabes of a comet.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

The bolides seem to burst as by explosion; but the largest, those from 1 to 1 degree 15 minutes in diameter, disappeared without scintillation, leaving behind them phosphorescent bands (trabes) exceeding in breadth fifteen or twenty minutes.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

It was just after this event that Uncle Jack, sanguine and light-hearted as ever, suddenly recollected his sister, Mrs. Caxton, and not knowing where else to dine, thought he would repose his limbs under my father's trabes citrea, which the ingenious W.S. Landor opines should be translated "mahogany."

The Caxtons — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838