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Type genus of the Corvidae crows and ravens
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corvus
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Corvus is a genus of birds including species commonly known as crows, ravens, rooks and jackdaws. Corvus may also refer to: Corvus (boarding device) , used by ancient Roman warships Corvus (constellation) Corvus (Chinese astronomy) , the same constellation ...
Usage examples of corvus.
A moment later Corvus arrested him with a firm hand on his shoulder, a squeeze that was just a little too sharp to be affectionate.
It was a show, Corvus knew: underneath the genteel exterior was a man with all the refinement and sensitivity of a ferret.
As she examined some of the images she had taken earlier for Corvus, she noticed something significant: many of the cells in which the particles appeared were elongated.
Iain Corvus, a curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
If Corvus heard yearning in the question, he had the decency not to show it.
Quintus Valerius Corvus, prefect of the Ala Quinta Gallorum - or I will be when it is fully formed.
Wine was a habit he had come to late and only in small quantities but it warmed him now and he would not have done Corvus the dishonour of turning him down.
By the last days of autumn, when Corvus led his men and their long strings of new mounts into the cavalry stockade at Moguntiacum, the legions were buzzing.
Half a heartbeat behind, Galba, Corvus and the attending clerks laughed with him.
Only Corvus had colour - in his eyes and the flush on his cheeks and the scarlet plumes on his parade helmet.
Peripherally, he became aware of movement at the bridges, of Corvus crossing the upper bridge behind Galba, riding in a knot of prefects and tribunes, of the Praetorian Guard preparing to cross the central bridge on foot surrounding the mounted dazzle of gold and white that was the emperor.
He thought maybe Corvus, but his ears had slurred the language until all Romans sounded the same.
Men of the II nd Augusta had found the body and one of their junior tribunes read the charge: that during the first watch of the night, the accused, Julius Valerius Corvus, did loose his horse, a pied colt known for its unstable temperament, and did set it to kill one Amminios, son of Cunobelinos, against whom he was known to hold a grudge, this man being under the protection and care of his most noble majesty the Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus.
They had slipped into it from the Latin as Corvus opened the shutters and Ban had not noticed.
Through the noise, he heard Corvus, speaking carefully in the measured, thoughtful tones he used before manoeuvres.