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- noun Plural form of
umbra .
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Examples
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Inque Deum templis jurabit Roma per umbras, is the indignant expression of Lucan; but it is a patriotic rather than a devout indignation.]
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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For landscape I don't use any umbras as they pull to much to yellow.
Palette Arrangements James Gurney 2008
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Forma est vitalis fulgor ex ipso bono manans per ideas, semina, rationes, umbras effusus, animos excitans ut per bonum in unum redigantur.
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Indignantem animam vacuas elludit in auras; so did Dido; Sed moriamur ait, sic sic juvat ire per umbras; [5580] Pyramus and Thisbe, Medea,
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Thetide aequor, umbras Aeaco, coelum Jove: and hath not so much possession as dominion.
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Turres sunt fastigiatæ, ultra celsitudinem omnnem, quæ fieri manu possit; itaque mensuram umbrarum egressæ, nullas habent umbras, regum pecuniæ otiosa ac stulta ostentatio.
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Its rays slanted across billowy masses scattered beneath him, throwing umbras and penumbras over their red heights, bursting into a circular rainbow where ice crystals refracted radiance.
Three Worlds to Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964
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Often on returning at this season from an evening party, we discern dark receding forms and hear voices too, "visæ _canes_ ululare per umbras," as _they_ glide moaning away and are lost in the obscurity of the off streets.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various
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Verum haud recta insistentes via umbras germanae gloriae non veram sectabantur, cognomina sibi nobilitatis imponentes, eaque Anglorum more ostentantes atque iactantes, quum antea is haberi esseque nobilissimus soleret, qui virtute non opibus, qui egregiis a se factis non maiorum suorum clarus erat.
An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait
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Tityron apricus recubasse referret ad umbras [_uel_ undas] _Heinsius (Korn) _
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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