10 Verbs to Use for the Word romans

Who harried the Saxon's kine and corn, Who banished the Roman all forlorn, Who tidied the Celt so tattered and torn," and so on, back to the prehistoric Jack who built the long house of the dead.

Nance Oldfield made no fuss at playing Marcia, Cato's daughter, for she was ever disposed to be tractable; but when it came to casting the noble Roman himself the trouble began.

"As he was not allowed to see Clotilde," says Fredegaire, "Clovis charged a certain Roman, named Aurelian, to use all his wit to come nigh her.

A free herdsman asked in joke if it was a corpse that was in a litter passing through Venusia, and which contained a young Roman.

Although the exact definition of a domestic novel nowhere appears, the term may be understoodby expanding the French roman à la tasse de théas meaning a realistic piece of fiction in which the heroine serves as chief protagonist, and which can be read with a teacup in one hand without danger of spilling the tea.

The poet hearing of Messalla's remarkable exploit at Philippi saw at once that his association with Brutus would remind every Roman of the events of 509 B.C., and that the populace would as a matter of course acclaim the young hero by the ancient cognomen "Publicola."

In white marble are the following beautiful statues: a group representing Hercules and Cacus; another representing a Roman carrying off a Sabine woman.

Seeon that bench beside the busy door There sleeps a Roman born: upon the floor His wife, dark-haired and handsome, takes her rest, Their black-eyed baby tugging at her breast.

He struck many a Roman to the ground.

Had Madame d'Epinay merely intended to write a roman à clef?

10 Verbs to Use for the Word  romans