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- a New Testament book containing an exposition of the doctrines of Saint Paul; written in AD 58
How To Use Romans In A Sentence
- For some 2,000 years the central bridge of Florence has crossed this narrow point in the Arno at least since 59 B.C. when Romans settled the untamed floodplain that became a colony called Florentia. Ponte Vecchio, a Bridge That Spans Centuries
- The Romans invented a distinct cornice for the Corinthian order, characterized by large projecting modillions embellished with acanthus leaves.
- Robert Dossie described three categories of watercolor painting — miniature, the most delicate; distemper, which is coarser, uses less expensive colors in a glue or casein binder, and is appropriate for canvas hangings, ceilings, and other interior decorative painting purposes; and fresco. reference As a technique practiced by the Romans, fresco painting was a subject of particularly interest in the antiquity-obsessed eighteenth-century. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
- Like the Rhine it also marked a boundary for the Romans; beyond it - unknowable nomads!
- Pyrrhus," said he, "the Romans are said to be good soldiers, and to rule over many warlike nations. Plutarch's Lives, Volume II
- By the word spado, the Romans very forcibly expressed their abhorrence of this mutilated condition. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2
- The Choctaw [Footnote: Romans, p. 70, Bossu, Vol. I, p. 308.] boys made use of a cane stalk, eight or nine feet in length, from which the obstructions at the joints had been removed, much as boys use what is called a putty blower. Indian Games : an historical research
- The Angles, Saxons, Danes, Frisians and other invaders intermarried with the existing Romano-British Celts, Romans, Jutes, Gauls, Greeks and Lombards.
- They had a cinnamon-like herb called bog myrtle, but it was the Romans who introduced many of the herbs and vegetables that we now know and love.
- Morally disreputable characters like Rocambole and Fantômas became the stars of ever-extending series of 19th-century romans feuilletons, plotting a course subsequently followed by the likes of Fu Manchu and Count Dracula.