"My predecessor no longer holds the baculus, Maytera.". From Wordnik.com. [Exodus From The Long Sun]
This is explained by Ducange: "Pedum, baculus pastoralis, episcopalis.". From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 55, November 16, 1850] Reference
When first I received the baculus, I had occasion to survey many old documents. From Wordnik.com. [Calde of the Long Sun]
Quetzal rose laboriously with the help of his baculus, and Silk's heart went out to him. From Wordnik.com. [Calde of the Long Sun]
Origen advise: and so Chrysostom, Haec erit tibi baculus, haec turris inexpugnabilis, haec armatura. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
With halting steps, he made his way to a red velvet chair and sat, laying the baculus across his knees. From Wordnik.com. [Calde of the Long Sun]
You would hold die baculus and wear the jeweled robes, and all the rest of us would kneel for your blessing. From Wordnik.com. [Nightside The Long Sun]
He was wearing an ordinary augur's robe; but he bore the baculus, his rod of office, which he used as a staff. From Wordnik.com. [Exodus From The Long Sun]
He turned his back and raised his black robe to cover his head, standing with his hands and the baculus out of sight in front of him. From Wordnik.com. [Exodus From The Long Sun]
Quetzal raised the baculus to bestow a benison, although Silk could see no one beyond the glare that enveloped the three of them except the mounted officers. From Wordnik.com. [Calde of the Long Sun]
That stretch of tunnel was as well lit by the creeping green lights the first settlers brought as any, yet he seemed almost to have disappeared, baculus and all. From Wordnik.com. [Exodus From The Long Sun]
As if to preside over a sacrifice at the Grand Manteion, the Prolocutor wore mulberry vestments crusted with diamonds and sapphires, and held the gold baculus that symbolized his authority. From Wordnik.com. [Calde of the Long Sun]
Aberdeen, and his staff, baculus or bachul, at S. Fergus, in Buchan. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles of Strathearn] Reference
Thus, the baculus, which helped Columbus to discover America, was taken to Portugal by Jews, and a. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Delight and Other Papers] Reference
It was a matter of a 'nolenti baculus'; not that I was cruel enough to use force towards an unhappy old man like the count. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
Not specified in the text at all; but it will be prettier than 'baculus,' which is that I had proposed, for the 'staff' of grasses. From Wordnik.com. [Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference
This will give a more clear meaning to the words 'rod' (virga), and 'staff' (baculus), when they occur together, as in the 23rd Psalm; and remember the distinction is that a rod bends like a switch, but a staff is stiff. From Wordnik.com. [Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference
Forbidden within, um, by the present holder of the baculus. ". From Wordnik.com. [Exodus From The Long Sun]
No, I've got my baculus, so I'm better off than the others. ". From Wordnik.com. [Exodus From The Long Sun]
"I remember well," said he; "and you, Aquilius, made, I think, this my baculus the staff of office. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
‘nolenti baculus’; not that I was cruel enough to use force towards an unhappy old man like the count. From Wordnik.com. [The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt] Reference
Quetzal offered him the baculus. From Wordnik.com. [Calde of the Long Sun]
With the help of the baculus, Quetzal rose. From Wordnik.com. [Exodus From The Long Sun]
Sed baculus Aaronis devoravit eorum - baculos. From Wordnik.com. [Pentateuchus ex recensione textus hebraei et versionum antiquarum latine versus notisque philologicis [microform]] Reference
Ivxmt, baculus, ra« ftfs. From Wordnik.com. [Appiani Alexandrini Romanarvm historiarvm qvae svpersvnt: Novo stvdio ...] Reference
Polla, potenta, tribon, baculus, scyphus: arcta supellex. From Wordnik.com. [The Lucasta Poems] Reference
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