The distich is highly fanciful and the conceits would hardly occur to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

No matter what your fashion is, you volition be capable to break a distich of these place and actually rep the benefits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warning: Slant-Eye Alert] Reference

I am not certain that the distich is a simple interpolation, since there is nothing in the context to which it is an obvious gloss.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference

Pope's distich, whence the line is taken, runs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 42, August 17, 1850] Reference

An old distich says of the Toadflax as compared with the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

Beneath the head, which is dated 1675, is this distich.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions] Reference

Hsiang-yün hastened to smilingly interpose with the distich.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

This distich is the first utterance of a piskey I have heard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850] Reference

= Williams suggested deleting this distich: 'The distance between.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference

The distich, however, appears to have been in use among the Polish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850] Reference

Why was the chant arrested at the conclusion of this first distich?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

The opening distich indicates that the poem is addressed to Tuticanus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference

= I believe this distich is an interpolation for the following reasons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference

Paul Spencer exhibits the following distich on his door, in Glasgow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 404, December 12, 1829] Reference

Heinsius and Bentley felt that the entire distich should be deleted; but.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference

In the final distich of the poem, he asks Suillius to assist his prayer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference

If of the fickleness of friends, there is Cato, who will give you his distich.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don Quixote] Reference

Pao-ch'ai praised the verses again and again, and next contributed the distich.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

= The asyndeton in this distich is odd, given the preceding series of connectives.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference

In the concluding distich Ovid declares that he has rendered immortal the deeds of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference

Only in the concluding distich does Ovid direct the poem to ask for his assistance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference

In the pentameter verse of the elegiac distich the caesura is always penthemimeral.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

A free translation, GORST says, but gives you the swing and the spirit of the distich.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, July 2, 1892] Reference

The young scholar capped her distich forthwith, and bowing to her with a meaning look.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westward Ho!] Reference

It was upon account of these two marriages, that the following Latin distich was made.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

= The distich may be an interpolation, or at least deeply corrupted in its present form.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference

A French philosopher placed a statue in his hall, under which was the follow-distich.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829] Reference

"Ah!" replied the other, "` evil is wrought by want of thought, '" quoting the old distich.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference

Certain manuscripts start the poem with the distich 'Illa relicta feris etiam nunc, improbe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference

The distich by Lin Tai-yü on the tablet of "Spiritual stream outside the world," ran thus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

The following distich is sufficient to show his malignancy, and to hold him up to execration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Oliver Goldsmith] Reference

This theory is encapsulated in the mnemonic distich, first cited in 1330, by Augustin de Dacie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

The distich by Lin Tai-yü on the tablet of “Spiritual stream outside the world,” ran thus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng] Reference

Three versions of the distich are before me; that cited by Dr. Pusey, and the two which follow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850] Reference

This distich reminds us of the “pride which aped humility,” in the motto of the house of Couci.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Abbot] Reference

Molly Maybush, indeed, gives us a hint of his fondness for that recreation in the following distich.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference

To many of them, without the least flattery, may be applied the distich which Sappho ascribes to herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference

The boy is said at the age of ten to have carved over the door a Latin distich, which, being translated, runs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference