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| Alphabetical [« »] flees 2 fleet 2 fleets 1 flesh 14 fleshed 1 flew 3 flies 7 | Frequency [« »] 14 aeons 14 care 14 eye 14 flesh 14 foul 14 glory 14 grains | Titus Lucretius Carus On the Nature of Things Concordances flesh |
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1 I| from minute and littlest flesh all flesh,~ And blood created 2 I| minute and littlest flesh all flesh,~ And blood created out 3 II| veins, heat, moisture, flesh, and thews -~ All differing 4 II| all sense is linked~ With flesh, and thews, and veins - 5 III| body they work.~ As in the flesh of any creature still~ Is 6 III| through the veins,~ The flesh, the thews, the bones, that 7 III| From out their putrid flesh exhale the worms,~ And whence 8 V| much as other kinds~ Of flesh and blood existing in the 9 V| stalwart sinews through the flesh,~ Nor easily seized by either 10 V| as he viewed his living flesh entombed~ Within a living 11 VI| the gold,~ But hides and flesh it shrivels up and shrinks.~ 12 VI| the fire,~ But hides and flesh (made hard by heat) it softens.~ 13 VI| grimace,~ The pulled and puffy flesh above the brows! -~ O not 14 VI| man's whole strength and flesh.~ And whoso had survived