"Fucus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a light fucus, To touch you o'er withal.——Honour'd Sejanus! What act, though ne'er so strange and insolent, But that addition will at least bear out, If't do ...
— Sejanus: His Fall • Ben Jonson
... mid-sea. An ugly reef is this of the Dhu Heartach; no pleasant assemblage of shelves, and pools, and creeks, about which a child might play for a whole summer without weariness, like the Bell Rock or the Skerryvore, but one oval nodule of black-trap, sparsely bedabbled with an inconspicuous fucus, and alive in every crevice with a dingy insect between a slater and a bug. No other life was there but that of sea-birds, and of the sea itself, that here ran like a mill-race and growled about the outer reef for ever, and ever and again, in the calmest weather, roared and spouted on the rock ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... Yes sir: and then comes reeking home of vapour and sweat, with going a foot, and lies in a month of a new face, all oil and birdlime; and rises in asses' milk, and is cleansed with a new fucus: God be wi' you, sir. One thing more, which I had almost forgot. This too, with whom you are to marry, may have made a conveyance of her virginity afore hand, as your wise widows do of their states, before they marry, in trust to some ...
— Epicoene - Or, The Silent Woman • Ben Jonson |
