Webster's Complete dictionary of the English language. Thoroughly revised and improved, by C.A. Goodrich and N. Porter1884 |
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Էջ 1505
... plays of Shakespeare and the poetry of Milton were carefully studied by the aid of the excellent Concordances of Mrs. Mary Cowden Clarke and Mr. Guy Lushington Prendergast , with particular reference to any special usage which these ...
... plays of Shakespeare and the poetry of Milton were carefully studied by the aid of the excellent Concordances of Mrs. Mary Cowden Clarke and Mr. Guy Lushington Prendergast , with particular reference to any special usage which these ...
Էջ 1529
... play . thrawan , threów , threówon , thrâwen , throw . IV . heȧwan , heów , heówon , heawen , hew beátan , beót , beóton , beaten , beat . V. rôwan , reów , reówon , rôwen , row . hrêpan , hreóp , hreópon , hrêpen , call . Those which ...
... play . thrawan , threów , threówon , thrâwen , throw . IV . heȧwan , heów , heówon , heawen , hew beátan , beót , beóton , beaten , beat . V. rôwan , reów , reówon , rôwen , row . hrêpan , hreóp , hreópon , hrêpen , call . Those which ...
Էջ 1537
... play . His wif and his doughter eck hath he laft within his hous , of which the dores were fast i - schitte . Thre of his olde foos han it espyed , and setten laddres to the walles of his hous , and by the wyndowes ben entred , and ...
... play . His wif and his doughter eck hath he laft within his hous , of which the dores were fast i - schitte . Thre of his olde foos han it espyed , and setten laddres to the walles of his hous , and by the wyndowes ben entred , and ...
Էջ 1540
... player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a piano- forte or to the column of air in an organ - pipe . Grove ... plays in nature . A'er - og'ra - pher , n . One who writes upon the prop- erties of the air ; one versed in aërography ...
... player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a piano- forte or to the column of air in an organ - pipe . Grove ... plays in nature . A'er - og'ra - pher , n . One who writes upon the prop- erties of the air ; one versed in aërography ...
Էջ 1543
... player which the other players are not sup - gentleman of the old Prussian school . " Ar - chan , a . [ See supra . ] ( Geol . ) The earliest posed to hear , while the audience hear it . Atri - um , n .; pl . Ä'TRI - À . [ Lat . , a ...
... player which the other players are not sup - gentleman of the old Prussian school . " Ar - chan , a . [ See supra . ] ( Geol . ) The earliest posed to hear , while the audience hear it . Atri - um , n .; pl . Ä'TRI - À . [ Lat . , a ...
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Էջ 1619 - Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: come on, let us deal wisely with them ; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and...
Էջ 1636 - France, and great numbers bought by the clergy and gentry, to distribute gratis among their poor parishioners and tenants. In Pennsylvania, as it discouraged useless expense in foreign superfluities, some thought it had its share of influence in producing that growing plenty of money, which was observable for several years after its publication.
Էջ 1616 - More, more, I prithee, more. Ami. It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques. Jaq. I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs.
Էջ 1520 - I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed to Him against that day.
Էջ 1624 - Audacious neighborhood, the wisest heart Of Solomon he led by fraud to build His temple right against the temple of God On that opprobrious hill, and made his grove The pleasant valley of Hinnom, Tophet thence And black Gehenna called, the type of Hell.
Էջ 1629 - The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Parting-ton's spirit was up ; but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop, or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest.
Էջ 1624 - Wit ever wakeful, fancy busy and procreative as an insect, courage, an easy mind that, without cares of its own, is at once disposed to laugh away those of others, and yet to be interested in them, — these and all congenial qualities, melting into the common copula of them all, the man of rank and the gentleman, with all its excellences and all its weaknesses, constitute the character of Mercutio ! Act i.
Էջ 1642 - Therefore at this fair are all such merchandise sold, as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures, and delights of all sorts, as whores, bawds, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants, lives, blood, bodies, souls, silver, gold, pearls, precious stones, and what not.
Էջ 1636 - I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.
Էջ 1642 - City lay through the midst of it. Now this valley is a very solitary place ; the prophet Jeremiah thus describes it : "A wilderness, a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought, and of the Shadow of Death, a land that no man," but a Christian, " passeth through, and where no man dwelt,