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Tyranni

noun
1.
New World flycatchers; antbirds; oven birds; woodhewers.  Synonym: suborder Tyranni.



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Tyrannidae
superfamily Tyrannidae
tyrannid


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"Tyranni" Quotes from Famous Books



... Continuation of the Chronicle of Croyland says only, that the body of king Henry was found lifeless (exanime) in the Tower. "Parcat Deus", adds he, "spatium poenitentiae Ei donet, Quicunque sacrilegas manus in Christum Domini ausus est immittere. Unde et agens tyranni, patiensque gloriosi martyris titulum mereatur." The prayer for the murderer, that he may live to repent, proves that the passage was written immediately after the murder was committed. That the assassin deserved the appellation ...
— Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third • Horace Walpole
... 'vultus instantis tyranni,' in this stout, be-wigged, lace-covered, yellow-faced man in front of me. I had obeyed the poet in so far that my courage had not been shaken. I confess that this spinning dust-heap of a world has never had such attractions for me that it would be a pang to leave it. Never, at least, ...
— Micah Clarke - His Statement as made to his three Grandchildren Joseph, - Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 • Arthur Conan Doyle


Words linked to "Tyranni" :   Furnariidae, Passeriformes, Dendrocolaptidae, animal order, Formicariidae, family Furnariidae, family Dendrocolaptidae, family Pipridae, order Passeriformes, Pipridae, family Formicariidae


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