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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... hast charge , And generation goodly doest enlarge , Incline thy will to affect our wishful vow . Spens . Not knowing ' twas my labour , I complain Of sudden shootings , and of grinding pain ! Mythrows come thicker , and my cries encreas ...
... hast charge , And generation goodly doest enlarge , Incline thy will to affect our wishful vow . Spens . Not knowing ' twas my labour , I complain Of sudden shootings , and of grinding pain ! Mythrows come thicker , and my cries encreas ...
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... hast thou rack'd ; the clergy's bags Are lank and lean with thy extortions , Shaksp . Name not Winterface , whose skin's slack , Lank , as an unthrift's purse . Donne . We let down into the receiver a great bladder well tied at the neck ...
... hast thou rack'd ; the clergy's bags Are lank and lean with thy extortions , Shaksp . Name not Winterface , whose skin's slack , Lank , as an unthrift's purse . Donne . We let down into the receiver a great bladder well tied at the neck ...
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... hast thou yet latch'd the Athenian's eyes With the love juice , as I did bid thee do ? Slaksp . LATCHES . n . s . Latches or laskets , in a ship , are small lines like loeps , fastened by sewing into the bonnets and drablers of a ship ...
... hast thou yet latch'd the Athenian's eyes With the love juice , as I did bid thee do ? Slaksp . LATCHES . n . s . Latches or laskets , in a ship , are small lines like loeps , fastened by sewing into the bonnets and drablers of a ship ...
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... hast ordain- ed , with all the company of heaven , we laud and magnify thy glorious name . Bentley . LAUDABLE . adj . [ laudabilis , Latin . ] 1. Praiseworthy ; commendable . I'm in this earthly world , where to do harm Is often ...
... hast ordain- ed , with all the company of heaven , we laud and magnify thy glorious name . Bentley . LAUDABLE . adj . [ laudabilis , Latin . ] 1. Praiseworthy ; commendable . I'm in this earthly world , where to do harm Is often ...
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... hast no pretence , Learning thy talent is , but mine is sense . Prior . As Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians , so it is manifest from this chap- ter , that St. Paul was a great master in all the 2. Skill in any thing ...
... hast no pretence , Learning thy talent is , but mine is sense . Prior . As Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians , so it is manifest from this chap- ter , that St. Paul was a great master in all the 2. Skill in any thing ...
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