"Fasces" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... appeared in their aprons, carrying spades, rakes, and the other implements of their trade; the female supporting baskets on their heads filled with rich flowers, vegetables, and fruits. When in front of the bailiff, the young men formed a sort of fasces of their several implements, with a readiness that denoted much study while the girls arranged their baskets in a circle at its foot. Then, joining hands, the whole whirled around, filling the air with a ...
— The Headsman - The Abbaye des Vignerons • James Fenimore Cooper
... were stored there. Not only was the Senate-house destroyed by the flames, but a temple also that was close to it. Milo's house was attacked, and was defended by arms. We are made to understand that all Rome was in a state of violence and anarchy. The Consuls' fasces had been put away in one of the temples—that of Venus Libitina: these the people seized and carried to the house of Pompey, declaring that he should be Dictator, and he alone Consul, mingling anarchy with a marvellous reverence for ...
— The Life of Cicero - Volume II. • Anthony Trollope
... with shameful stain, Hath marred its heavenly blue? The yoke, the fasces, and the chain, Say, are ...
— The Liberty Minstrel • George W. Clark |
