These disjecta membra of tales and annals are pleasantly relieved by the seven voyages of Sindbad the Seaman (vol.
Our poets are not merely vague and confused, they are altogether fragmentary--disjecta membra poetarum; they need some uniting idea.
His works are after all only the disjecta membra poetae; full of hints of a great might-have-been.
Dante addresses Apollo in the words-- 'Entra nel petto mio, e spira tue Si come quando Marsia traesti Della vagina delle membra sue.
Cleopatra, which was carried in the triumph-- Brachia spectavi sacris admorsa colubris Et trahere occultum membra soporis iter.
It is mentioned by Theophrastus and Aristotle, while Lucan thus describes it: Sic omnia membra Emisere simul rutilum pro sanguine virus.
Come to me in my dreams' TE uigilans oculis, animo te nocte requiro, uicta iacent solo cum mea membra toro.
It was Greece and the East; where, as you may say, abjects and orts of truth came down; not the live Mysteries, but the membra disjecta of the vanished Mysteries of a vanished age.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "membra" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
