A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations, by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed a History of the Language, and an English Grammar, Volume 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 - English language |
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... BIRD . LA'DY - COW . LADY - FLY . n . s . A small red insect vaginopennous . Fly lady - bird , north , south , or east or west , Fly where the man is found that I love best . Gay . Gay . This lady - fy I take from off the grass , Whose ...
... BIRD . LA'DY - COW . LADY - FLY . n . s . A small red insect vaginopennous . Fly lady - bird , north , south , or east or west , Fly where the man is found that I love best . Gay . Gay . This lady - fy I take from off the grass , Whose ...
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... bird with long wings . Ah ! but I think him better than I say , And yet would herein others eyes were worse : Far from her nest the Lapwing cries away ; My heart prays for him , though my tongue do Shakspeare . curse . And how in fields ...
... bird with long wings . Ah ! but I think him better than I say , And yet would herein others eyes were worse : Far from her nest the Lapwing cries away ; My heart prays for him , though my tongue do Shakspeare . curse . And how in fields ...
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... bird . It was the lark , the herald of the morn . Shak .. Look up a height , the shrill - gorg'd lark so far Cannot be seen or heard . Shaksp . King Lear . Th ' example of the heav'nly lark , Thy fellow poet , Cowley , mark . 4 . Tom ...
... bird . It was the lark , the herald of the morn . Shak .. Look up a height , the shrill - gorg'd lark so far Cannot be seen or heard . Shaksp . King Lear . Th ' example of the heav'nly lark , Thy fellow poet , Cowley , mark . 4 . Tom ...
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... bird , he had not the night- ingale's voice . L'Estrange . He that really lays these two things to heart , the extreme necessity that he is in , and the small possibility of help , will never come coldly to a work of that concernment ...
... bird , he had not the night- ingale's voice . L'Estrange . He that really lays these two things to heart , the extreme necessity that he is in , and the small possibility of help , will never come coldly to a work of that concernment ...
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... bird taking a feather . Bacon . Spirit of vitriol poured to pure unmixed serum , coagulates as if it had been boiled . Spirit of sea- salt makes a perfect coagulation of the serum likewise , but with some different phænomena . Arbuthnot ...
... bird taking a feather . Bacon . Spirit of vitriol poured to pure unmixed serum , coagulates as if it had been boiled . Spirit of sea- salt makes a perfect coagulation of the serum likewise , but with some different phænomena . Arbuthnot ...
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