Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things.
Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II. 622-625.
Onward! onward!
With the night-wind,
Over field and farm and forest,
Lonely homestead, darksome hamlet,
Blighting all we breathe upon!
Longfellow, Golden Legend.
Instrumenti genus vocale, et semivocale, et mutum: vocale, in quo sunt servi; semivocale, in quo sunt boves; mutum, in quo sunt plaustra.—Varro, De Re Rustica, Lib. I. cap. xvii. § 1.