In the ergastulum, your honour, with the furca on his neck.
His hands were bound behind him, and over his neck was the heavy wooden collar or furca which was placed upon refractory slaves.
Thus adjured, Furca began to recount the insults offered to the gods by the Christians, and, especially, that the Empress no longer attended their public festivals.
Besides that crafty old vultureFurca was closeted with the Prefect for an hour by the clepshydra, and you always smell carrion when he is hovering round.
On the other hand, the two limbless segments that precede the caudal furca are decidedly non-malacostracan.
The muscles attached to the arms of each furca pass to other structures in or near the middle line of the body.
The whole course of the upper Rhone, from its glacier source on the slope of Mount Furca to its confluence with the Saône at Lyon, is unfit for navigation, except where it lingers in Lake Geneva.
A carriage road follows the axis of the Central Alps from Lake Geneva to Lake Constance by means of the upper Rhone, Andermatt, and upper Rhine valleys, linked by the Furca and Oberalp passes.
They hastily unbound the tired arms of Onesimus, and took the furca off his neck.
The unhappy young Phrygian was told that he would probably be crucified; but if not, he would be tied to the furca and scourged, perhaps to death, with the horrible thongs.
Hospenthal has a hotel or two, and it is a great halting place for travellers who are about to take our route over the Furca to the Hospice of the Grimsel.
We were just making the last sharp ascent before reaching the summit of the Furca when I overtook a lady sitting disconsolately by the wayside.
I hug my great coat closely, as the cold winds from these eternal icebergs search me, and in a few minutes reached the inn at the summit of the Furca Pass.
The Furca Pass leads off from the St. Gothard road, and with a guide to pilot us, we struck into a narrow defile.
But he had been crushing me slowly, and when he started to argue on the top of the Furca Pass he was perhaps nearer a success than either he or I imagined.
What greater reward in ambition, honour, and conscience could he have hoped to win for himself when, on the top of the Furca Pass, he bade me look well to the end of my opening life?
Our mapped-out route led over the Furca Pass toward the Rhone Glacier, with the further intention of following down the trend of the Hasli Valley.
But the man who put his hand on my shoulder at the top of the Furca Pass was no longer living.
The shadows of distant peaks were lengthening over the Furca Pass.
We began the descent of the Furca Pass conversing merrily.
Our mapped-out route led over the Furca Pass towards the Rhone Glacier, with the further intention of following down the trend of the Hasli Valley.
What greater reward in ambition, honour and conscience could he have hoped to win for himself when, on the top of the Furca Pass, he bade me look well to the end of my opening life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "furca" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
