Lexicographical Neighbors of Cestuses
Literary usage of Cestuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dialogues of Plato by Plato (1907)
"... and in order that we might come as near to reality as possible, instead of
cestuses we should have our arms bound round with boxing-gloves, ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1856)
"They sell us rings, bracelets, diadems, cestuses, and so on, composed of rare
stones, without once alluding to their allegories, relations, or symbols. ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1824)
"Clubs, cestuses, blunt poles or lances, truncheons, and! mallets, are allowed
weapons, and clatter incessantly: the great art of the Commander is to bring ..."
4. Recollections of Samuel Breck: With Passages from His Notebooks (1771-1862) by Samuel Breck, Horace Elisha Scudder (1877)
"The ladies wore bandeaux, cestuses and ribbons stamped and worked in with the
name of Washington, some in gold and silver ..."
5. A History of Greek Sculpture by Rufus Byam Richardson (1911)
"Roman show, if we may judge from the terrible cestuses of metal. In these two
interesting but horrible ..."
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