Juvenal delights to tell, liked perfumes well enough if I remember; and Horace and Martial cry "Carpe rosas" perpetually.
Refined countries always are panting for speedy enjoyment: the maxim of carpe diem[Footnote: Seize the present moment.
I seigh floures in the fryth, And hir faire colours; And how among the grene gras Growed so manye hewes, And some soure and some swete, Selkouth me thoughte; Of hir kynde and hir colour 7310 To carpe it were to longe.
And thanne shul burel clerkes ben abasshed To blame yow or to greve, And carpen noght as thei carpe now, Ne calle yow doumbe houndes.
Carpe diem was the motto of the Ancients and it is mine!
Carpe diem was the Prince's avowed motto, and was she already a convert and had she forgotten her own answer, "Somebody has to bear the consequences"?
But they attend the fated despoiler: Ergo alte uestiga oculis et rite repertum carpe manu, namque ipse uolens facilisque sequetur si te fata uocant.
For profit and for helthe Carpe I wolde with Contricion, And therfore cam I hider.
Alas for the Carpe à la Gelée and the Sole au vin Rouge and the Poularde Maison d'Or!
And this a breakfast at the same establishment:-- Glachi de Carpe (froid).
Carpe diem should be our motto in these fleeting times, and, above all, progress, not retrogression.
Pray you sir, vse the Carpe as you may, for he lookes like a poore decayed, ingenious, foolish, rascally knaue.
CARPE DIEM Hold fast thine youth, dear soul of mine, new lives will come to birth, And I that shall have passed away be one with the brown earth.
It is the carpe diem religion; but the carpe diem religion is not the religion of happy people, but of very unhappy people.
No blow then has ever been struck at the natural loves and laughter of men so sterilizing as this carpe diem of the aesthetes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carpe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
