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
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
The uniformity of his pauses, and the sameness of structure in a large number of his hexameters, enable us to appreciate the great improvement in rhythmical art which appeared some ten years later in the Bucolics of Virgil.
From Project Gutenberg
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