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Ardea

noun
1.
Type genus of the Ardeidae: large New and Old World herons.  Synonym: genus Ardea.



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"Ardea" Quotes from Famous Books



... in check, from the citadel's walls, the Gauls on the point of effecting an entrance; and M. Furius Camillus, who had been banished from Rome the preceding year, and had taken refuge in the town of Ardea, and who instantly took the field for his country, rallied the Roman fugitives, and incessantly harassed the Gauls—are true heroes, who have earned their weed of glory. Let no man seek to lower them in public esteem. Noble actions are ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume I. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

... spring was conquering the hills! As they passed over the great viaduct at Aricia, the thick Chigi woods to the left masked the deep ravine in torrents of lightest foamiest green; and over the vast plain to the right, stretching to Ardea, Lanuvium and the sea, the power of the reawakening earth, like a shuttle in the loom, was weaving day by day its web of colour and growth, the ever brightening pattern of crop, and grass and vine. The beggars tormented them on the approach to Genzano, as they tormented of old Horace and ...
— Eleanor • Mrs. Humphry Ward



Words linked to "Ardea" :   family Ardeidae, Ardeidae, great white heron, genus Ardea, Ardea herodius, Ardea occidentalis, bird genus, great blue heron



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