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Definition of Dactyls
1. dactyl [n] - See also: dactyl
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dactyls
Literary usage of Dactyls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Historic Note-book: With an Appendix of Battles by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1891)
"... Indians of North America are incorrectly called Dacoits. Dacoity. Brigandage.
dactyls, or ' Idean dactyls. ..."
2. Papers of the Archaeological Institute of America by Archaeological Institute of America, William Cranston Lawton, Joseph Silas Diller, Joseph Thacher Clarke (1898)
"One foot and fifteen dactyls was assigned to the thickness of the transverse ...
The remainder, four feet thirteen dactyls, was divided into three coffers ..."
3. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day by George Saintsbury (1908)
"... Herries—Sheridan—Steele—Tyrwhitt—Walter Young —Nares and Fogg—The Upper House:
Shenstone—On "long" rhymes—On "dactyls"—Gray—His Metrum notes—Johnson ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1821)
"Its this verse there exists a most beautiful variation of dactyls and spots dees;
and by a proper pronunciation the exact time of 24 breves, or quavers, ..."
5. Grammar of the Greek Language: For the Use of High Schools and Colleges by Raphael Kühner (1872)
"Spondees may take the place of the dactyls in the first half, but not in the
second, because the numbers at their conclusion should run more freely, ..."
6. Crete in the Greek Tradition by Theodore Arthur Buenger (1915)
"... IDAEAN dactyls, CURETES Diodorus* says that according to local tradition there
were in Crete three groups of divine beings, either contemporary or ..."
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