rupes

Monsieur le Baron de Watteville, a dry, lean man devoid of intelligence, looked worn out without any one knowing whereby, for he enjoyed the profoundest ignorance; but as his wife was a red-haired woman, and of a stern nature that became proverbial (we still say “as sharp as Madame de Watteville”), some wits of the legal profession declared that he had been worn against that rock — Rupt is obviously derived from rupes.

Albert Savarus 2007

Monsieur le Baron de Watteville, a dry, lean man devoid of intelligence, looked worn out without any one knowing whereby, for he enjoyed the profoundest ignorance; but as his wife was a red-haired woman, and of a stern nature that became proverbial (we still say “as sharp as Madame de Watteville”), some wits of the legal profession declared that he had been worn against that rock — Rupt is obviously derived from rupes.

Albert Savarus 2007

Ambulantibus enim illuc siue repentibus hominibus obstarent tenebræ imo rupes, aer infestus, bestiæ, serpentes, frigus, et camua.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

Sed certum est ibi haberi rupes christalli, et in illis gigni optimos Diamantes, quos lingua illius vocant Hamefht.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

Historicus rupes quasdam circuisse, vel circumreptasse.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Historicus rupes quasdam circuisse, vel circumreptasse.

A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

Ambulantibus enim illuc siue repentibus hominibus obstarent tenebr� imo rupes, aer infestus, besti�, serpentes, frigus, et camua.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Sed certum est ibi haberi rupes christalli, et in illis gigni optimos Diamantes, quos lingua illius vocant Hamefht.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

= _Capitolinus_ is metrically awkward; hence the synecdoche from the _Tarpeia rupes_, the part of the Capitoline from which criminals were hurled.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

Indeed, as the chief occupation of crags, and their only amusement, in mountainous regions, is to pelt unwary passengers and hunters of scenery with their _débris_, we might have _creag, quasi caregos faciens sive dejiciens, sicut rupes a rumpere_.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various