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Example sentences for "cupido"

Lexicographically close words:
cupels; cupful; cupfull; cupfuls; cupidity; cupids; cupiens; cupio; cupit; cupiunt
  1. Etiam sapientibus cupido gloriƦ novissima exuitur=--Even by the wise the desire of glory is the last of all passions to be laid aside.

  2. Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, / In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua=--What a woman says to an ardent lover ought to be written on the winds and the swiftly flowing water.

  3. Cupido dominandi cunctis affectibus flagrantior est=--The desire of rule is the most ardent of all the affections of the mind.

  4. Do you know what she said to Cupido yesterday?

  5. Cupido was perspiring freely, under the hard work.

  6. Cupido himself, with sudden gravity, advised him to go and meet those boats.

  7. Rafael was tempted as he walked aimlessly about the streets, to look up the barber Cupido in his shop that very afternoon.

  8. Cupido would say when don Matias came up for discussion.

  9. When Rafael found him upon the bridge that night, after the procession, Cupido was on the point of coming to blows with several rustics, who had grown indignant at his heresies.

  10. How explain to Cupido his interest in that woman, without having the whole city know about it before sundown?

  11. Cupido was taking full advantage of the occasion.

  12. Cupido jumped into the house and was followed by the young man, who took pains to make the climb gracefully and sprightly.

  13. Besides, Cupido was the freak of the city, the sharp-tongued but irresponsible practical joker, who was forgiven everything in advance, and could enjoy his idiosyncrasies and speak his mind about people without starting a riot against him.

  14. Cupido was trying vainly to cheer her with jokes about the inundation.

  15. Cupido would shout, without, however, taking his eyes from the water ahead.

  16. Behind their backs they heard the rustle of the gown that Cupido was dragging along behind him with absurd antics.

  17. A desire--of seeing what he had never seen--More humani ingenii, cupido ignara visundi invadit.

  18. His naturall mother knewe by abusyon Uenus and Cupido with their collusyon.

  19. He rubbed his eyes in vain to see if they deceived him, but a nod from the half-dead Cupido convinced him that this was not so.

  20. Cupido and the Kaffirs, and his own Swellendam Hottentots, had been questioned and cross-examined, but to no purpose.

  21. Cupido died in his service some fourteen years since.

  22. Goodrick had gone for a few moments to the back door, which faced partly towards the entrance to the kloof, and found Cupido standing there, seemingly listening intently.

  23. The sight that met his eyes, and those of his wife and Cupido close behind, was enough to have shaken the stoutest heart.

  24. After some little trouble, fresh halters were procured, the horses tied up and soothed, and the two again retired, Cupido being cautioned to keep his ears open against further disturbance.

  25. Shortly after, two of the Swellendam Hottentots left, and the other two, with Cupido and Mrs Goodrick's servant, alone remained.

  26. On his report you sent Mynheer Van Scheltema there as resident, and Cupido as controlleur.

  27. Van Scheltema and Cupido died of the fevers.

  28. Within six months Van Scheltema was bitten by an adder placed in his bedroom and Cupido was assassinated by a hill Dyak, who threw him out of a dugout into a river swarming with crocodiles.

  29. Semidiagrammatic dorsolateral view of the sciatic nerve of Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus 3L, showing the distribution of the branches.

  30. Semidiagrammatic drawing of the distal part of the peroneal nerve of Tympanuchus cupido attwateri 1R, showing the distribution of the branches.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cupido" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.