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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... leave . She in harvest us'd to lease ; But harvest done , to chare - work did aspire , Meat , drink , and two - pence , was her daily hire . Dryden . LEASER . n . s . [ from lease . ] Gleaner ; gatherer after the reaper . There was no ...
... leave . She in harvest us'd to lease ; But harvest done , to chare - work did aspire , Meat , drink , and two - pence , was her daily hire . Dryden . LEASER . n . s . [ from lease . ] Gleaner ; gatherer after the reaper . There was no ...
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... leave to dye . Spenser . Shakspeare . I make bold to press upon you . -You're welcome ; give us leave , drawer . The days Waller . Of Sylla's sway , when the free sword took leave To act all that it would . Ben Jonson's Catiline ...
... leave to dye . Spenser . Shakspeare . I make bold to press upon you . -You're welcome ; give us leave , drawer . The days Waller . Of Sylla's sway , when the free sword took leave To act all that it would . Ben Jonson's Catiline ...
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... leave thee either corn , wine , or oil . Deuteronomy . Vastius gave strict commandment , that they should leave behind them unnecessary baggage . Knolles ' History . 8. To reject ; not to choose . Steele . In all the common incidents of ...
... leave thee either corn , wine , or oil . Deuteronomy . Vastius gave strict commandment , that they should leave behind them unnecessary baggage . Knolles ' History . 8. To reject ; not to choose . Steele . In all the common incidents of ...
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... leave . Alas , poor lady ! desolate and left ; Swift . I weep myself to think upon thy words . Shaksp . Had such a river as this been left to itself , to have found its way out from among the Alps , whatever windings it had made , it ...
... leave . Alas , poor lady ! desolate and left ; Swift . I weep myself to think upon thy words . Shaksp . Had such a river as this been left to itself , to have found its way out from among the Alps , whatever windings it had made , it ...
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... Leave , ah , leave off , whatever wight thou be , To let a weary wretch from her due rest , And trouble dying soul's tranquillity ! Fairy Q. Isaiah . I will work , and who will let LET LET.
... Leave , ah , leave off , whatever wight thou be , To let a weary wretch from her due rest , And trouble dying soul's tranquillity ! Fairy Q. Isaiah . I will work , and who will let LET LET.
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Addison Ainsworth Arbuthnot Atterbury Bacon Ben Jonson Bentley bird blood body Boyle Brown called cause church chyle Clarendon colour death Dict doth Dryd Dryden Dutch earth Ecclesiasticus eyes fair Fairy Queen fire French give Glanville hand hast hath head heart heav'n honour Hooker Hudibras kind king L'Estrange labour land Latin leave light live Locke look lord low Latin Maccabees manner marcasites matter mean Milt Milton mind motion mouth nature ness never night noun o'er optick pain pass passion peace pear person plant Pope pow'r prince Prior publick Raleigh Saxon sense Shaks Shaksp Shakspeare shew Sidney soul South Spenser spirit stone sweet Swift Tatler thee thing thou thought Tillotson tion tongue tree unto v. a. mis verb virtue Waller Watts Woodward word