Spicula

[4023] Irrita vaniloquae quid curas spicula linguae, ❋ Unknown (2007)

In short, all the graces which young ladies and young gentlemen too learn from others, and the many improvements which, by the help of a looking-glass, they add of their own, are in reality those very spicula et faces amoris so of mentioned by Ovid; or, as they are sometimes called in our own language, the whole artillery of love. ❋ Unknown (2004)

When nearly on the crest of the Portillo, we were enveloped in a falling cloud of minute frozen spicula. ❋ Unknown (2003)

= The same image at _EP_ III iii 105-6 'ergo alii noceant miseris optentque timeri,/_tinctaque mordaci spicula felle gerant_'. ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

And yet Thoreau camps down by Walden Pond and shows us that absolutely nothing in Nature has ever yet been described, -- not a bird nor a berry of the woods, nor a drop of water, nor a spicula of ice, nor summer, nor winter, nor sun, nor star. ❋ Various (N/A)

Nox et caeruleam terris infuderat umbram. ille propinquabat silvis et ab aggere celso scuta virum galeasque videt rutilare comantes, qua laxant rami nemus adversaque sub umbra flammeus aeratis lunae tremor errat in armis. obstipuit visis, ibat tamen, horrida tantum spicula et inclusum capulo tenus admovet ensem. ac prior unde, viri, quidve occultatis in armis? 'non humili terrore rogat. nec reddita contra vox, fidamque negant suspecta silentia pacem. ❋ Harold Edgeworth Butler (1914)

Augustus primoque rudis flagrauerat aestu; nec nouus unde calor nec quid suspiria uellent, nouerat incipiens et adhuc ignarus amandi. non illi uenator equus, non spicula curae, 5 non iaculum torquere libet; mens omnis aberrat in uulnus quod fixit Amor. quam saepe medullis erupit gemitus! quotiens incanduit ore confessus secreta rubor nomenque beatum iniussae scripsere manus! ❋ Claudian (1912)

It publishes itself in creatures, reaching from particles and spicula, through transformation on transformation to the highest symmetries, arriving at consummate results without a shock or a leap. ❋ Unknown (1909)

He showed them afore what trouble might fall unto him wherewith, and the like virtuous talk he had so long before his trouble encouraged them, that when he after fell in the trouble indeed, his trouble to him was a great deal the less, quia spicula prævisa minus lædunt. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Linguae procacis plumbea spicula, Fidens, superbo frange silentio; ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)

Nature 'publishes itself in creatures, reaching from particles and spicula, through transformation on transformation to the highest symmetries. ❋ John Morley (1880)

Leaves are porous, and admit air and light more or less freely into their substance; they are generally smooth and even glazed on one surface; they are usually covered on one or both sides with spicula, and they very commonly present one or more acuminated points in their outline -- all circumstances which tend to augment their power of emitting heat by reflection or radiation. ❋ Unknown (1874)

He is said to have planted 6500 acres of mountain-ground with these valuable trees, which not only bring in heavy returns as timber, but so enrich the ground on which they grow, by the decayed _spicula_ or spines which fall from them, as to increase its value in the course of some years eight or tenfold. ❋ Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing (1863)

Introducing the alum-cell, and placing the coating of hoar-frost at the intensely luminous focus of the electric lamp, not a spicula of the dazzling frost is melted. ❋ John Tyndall (1856)

His varied and solid knowledge makes his style lustrous with points and shooting spicula of thought, and resembling one of those winter mornings when the air sparkles with crystals. ❋ Unknown (1850)

I have received and read with interest your paper on the sponge with horny spicula. ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)

"Yo where's [Vic]?" "Spicula [got him]" "[Oh word]," ❋ Frabbo (2005)