In this month, in cloudy days, pale-blue duns often appear; and they are still more common in September.
As yesterday; a yellow fly for your stretcher, and two duns for the droppers.
Duns Scotus Erigena translated the Neoplatonic mysticism of the pseudo-Dionysus.
The nominalist and realist dispute brought again into the arena the relations between thought and speech, and we find Duns Scotus occupied with the problem in his De modis significandi seu grammatica speculativa.
The only walk where I don't meet my duns is down by a canal,--a lonely path, with dwarf willows along it.
Bonaventura, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, andDuns Scotus were the great ornaments of these new orders.
Scarcely less than they, in the next century, were Duns Scotus and John Wyclif,--far greater in influence than any of the proud feudal lords who rendered service to Edward III.
This storm will protect us from theDuns until morning, at least," Potter rejoined.
Dem Duns comin' right yere dis night, set dis house erfire an' shoot us ez we runs out.
Controversies between the Scotists and Thomists, followers of the teaching of Duns Scotus and Thomas Aquinas, caused Thomist perversion of the name of Duns into its use as Dunce and tradition of the subtle Doctor's extreme personal ugliness.
How pleasantly I might linger on here, 'My duns forgetting, by my duns forgot.
In his third year at College, the duns began to gather awfully round about him, and there was a levee at his oak which scandalized the tutors, and would have scared many a stouter heart.
There were no dunsabout his door, they were all paid--scarcely any cards were left there.
The horse may have descended from a striped ancestor, stripes still sometimes remaining, especially induns and mouse-duns.
Duns Scotus, if he were Irish, never taught any error, and remained always an accepted leader in Catholic schools.
They bore the name of raths when used for dwellings; of duns when constructed with a view to resisting an attack.
So Cuculain questioned Laeg concerning the cities of Meath, and concerning the noble raths and duns where the kings and lords and chief men of Meath dwelt prosperously, rejoicing in their great wealth.
He climbed to the hill's brow and looked westward and saw far away the white shiningduns of the marvellous city from which, even now, the morning smoke went up into the windless air.
Abuse, in later time, of the followers of Duns gave its present sense to the word Dunce.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "duns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
