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Tarsus   /tˈɑrsəs/   Listen
Tarsus

noun
(pl. tarsi)
1.
The part of the foot of a vertebrate between the metatarsus and the leg; in human beings the bones of the ankle and heel collectively.



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"Tarsus" Quotes from Famous Books



... else, in us there is A sense fastidious hardly reconciled To the poor makeshifts of life's scenery, Where the same slide must double all its parts, Shoved in for Tarsus and hitched back for Tyre, I blame not in the soul this daintiness, Rasher of surfeit than a humming-bird, In things indifferent by sense purveyed; It argues her an immortality 140 And dateless incomes of experience, This unthrift ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell

... a sympathy for, the thought-visions of men like Charles Kingsley, Marcus Aurelius, Whit tier, Montaigne, Paul of Tarsus, Robert Browning, Pythagoras, Channing, Milton, Sophocles, Swedenborg, Thoreau, Francis of Assisi, Wordsworth, Voltaire, Garrison, Plutarch, Ruskin, Ariosto, and all kindred spirits and souls of great measure, from David down to Rupert Brooke,—if a study of the thought of ...
— Essays Before a Sonata • Charles Ives

... complaints and distributing rewards and promotions. The allied chiefs came to him from the borders of the Province to pay their respects. He received them graciously, and dismissed them pleased and satisfied. After a few days spent thus, he sailed for Cilicia, held a council at Tarsus, and then crossed the Taurus, and went by forced marches through Cappadocia to Pontus. He received a legion from Deiotarus which had been organized in Roman fashion. He sent to Calvinus to meet him with the survivors of his lost battle; and when they arrived, he reviewed the force which ...
— Caesar: A Sketch • James Anthony Froude



Words linked to "Tarsus" :   tarsal, pedal extremity, vertebrate foot, tarsal bone, cuboid bone, skeletal structure



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