Tremulous twinkle pro#

Thy long, pale, floating vapor-pennants, tinged with delicate purple, Thy great protruding head-light fix’d in front, Thy metrical, now swelling pant and roar, now tapering in the distance, Thy ponderous side-bars, parallel and connecting rods, gyrating, shuttling at thy sides, Thy black cylindric body, golden brass, and silvery steel, Thee in thy panoply, thy measur’d dual throbbing and thy beat convulsive, Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day declining, Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,Īnd there is the green for stringing the daisies! The last is a later poem the locomotive is still a sort of snorting monster, but now one that has integrated itself into the great and small business of daily life.įaster than fairies, faster than witches,Īnd charging along like troops in a battle,Īll through the meadows the horses and cattle:Īll of the sights of the hill and the plain The first four are from roughly the era of Locomotive and reflect some of the age’s wonder, admiration, and even fear of the new machines: “Type of the modern-emblem of motion and power-pulse of the continent”! Job, 38, 31: oculos circumtulit igne micantes, Ov. a., twinkling, sparkling, glittering, gleaming, flashing, glowing: stella micans radiis Arcturus, Cic. 2, 40: celeri micuerunt nubila flamma, id. 220: genitor circum caput omne micantes Deposuit radios, Ov. 3, 289: micant ardorem orbes luminis, Verg. 12, 102: ex oculis micat acrius ardor, Lucr. oculis micat ignis, fire flashes from his eyes, id. of the brilliancy of the stars, of the eyes, etc., to flash, gleam, beam, shine, be bright: micat inter omnes Julium sidus, Hor. Also in contracts: RATIO DOCVIT, CONSVETVDINE MICANDI SVMMOTA, SVB EXAGIO POTIVS PECORA VENDERE, QVAM DIGITIS CONCLVDENTIBVS TRADERE, Edict. 3, 19, 77: cum quo audacter posses in tenebris micare, Petr.

Prov.: dignus est, quicum in tenebris mices, said of a thoroughly honest man, since it would be easy to cheat in the dark, Cic.

Tremulous twinkle pro#

3, 23, 90: patrem et filium pro vita rogantes sortiri vel micare jussisse, Suet. 347, 30: quid enim sors est? item propemodum, quod micare, quod talos jacere, Cic. 347, 27: micandum erit cum Graeco, utrum. To raise suddenly some of the fingers and let another instantly guess their number, which was practised both as a game of chance (called in Italy mora) and as a mode of deciding doubtful matters: micare est sortiri digitis, Non. 6, 12, 9: eo ferocior inlatus hostis urgere scutis, micare gladiis, id. 40, 58, 5: inter horrendos fragores micare ignes, id. 345: fulmina etiam sic undique micabant, ut peti viderentur corpora, flashed in every direction, Liv. 4, 300: citatus vulnere angusto micat (cruor), Sen. 3, 84: micuere fontes, spring forth, Luc. 463 Vahl.): digiti (of a hand cut off), Verg. 29, 6, 38, § 117: semianimesque micant (culi (of a head cut off), twitch, Enn. 9, 37: noctuarum genus, quibus pluma aurium modo micat, Plin. 1, 45: et modo cervicem, modo crura micantia captat, id.

3, 36: nec audissem corde micante tubam, for the beating, Prop. 6, 12, 9: corque timore micat, beats, palpitates, Ov. 2, 9, 24: linguis micat ore trisulcis, Verg. In gen.: venae et arteriae micare non desinunt, Cic. of the pulse to beat, palpitate to spring forth, of fountains of the tremulous rays of the stars, to twinkle, sparkle, glitter, gleam, flash (class.). mish-, to wink, to move quickly to and fro, to have a vibrating or tremulous motion, to quiver, shake, tremble, e.