Bucolics
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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A keen eye will spot kudzu, not soybeans or cotton, as the lush bucolics for many scenes in the 2016 civil rights film Loving.
From Slate
The unreliable Suetonius adds that “he very often suffered from stomach and throat troubles, as well as with headache; and . . . ate and drank but little. He was especially given to passions for boys, and his special favorites were Cebes and Alexander, whom he calls Alexis in the second poem of his Bucolics.”
From Washington Post
It is quite in the way of one of Virgil's Amœbœan Bucolics.
From Project Gutenberg
Gabrielle, while tranquilly embroidering, was not averse to recalling the past, summoning on the disc of memory the pageants of Versailles, the innocent bucolics of Trianon, the magnificent f�tes at the Tuileries.
From Project Gutenberg
The short interval between the death of Catullus and the appearance of the Bucolics of Virgil marks the beginning of a new era in literature and in history: Magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo.
From Project Gutenberg
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