Canina facundia—Dog (i.e., snarling) eloquence. Appius.
Canis a non canendo—Dog is called "canis," from "non cano," not to sing. Varro.
Canis in præsepi—The dog in the manger (that would not let the ox eat the hay which he could not eat himself).
Cannon and firearms are cruel and damnable 20 machines. I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the devil. Luther.
Can storied urn or animated bust / Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? / Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, / Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death? Gray.
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, / Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, / Raze out the written troubles of the brain? / And with some sweet oblivious antidote, / Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff / Which weighs upon the heart? Macb., v. 3.
Can such things be, / And overcome us like a summer's cloud, / Without our special wonder? Macb., iii. 4.
Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator—The penniless traveller will sing in presence of the robber. Juv.
Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, 25 doubt, be in religion, what we priests term it, the greatest of sins? Bovee.
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Bible.