The OED Quotations and Authors: FORD. I beseech you, heartily, some of you go home with meto dinner: besides your cheer, you shall have sport; I willshow you a monster. Master Doctor, you shall go; so shallyou, Master Page; and…
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Voracious
MW Quotations and Authors: I confess, when I went into arms at the beginning of this war, I never troubled myself to examine sides: I was glad to hear the drums beat for soldiers, as if I had been a…
Caveat
MW Quotations and Authors: GRACE. O! he is too serious for this place, and yet better sport then than the other three, I assure you, gentlemen, wherever he is, though it be on the bench. COKES. How dost thou call…
Spirit-rapper
The OED “Odd fish!” “Poor fellow!” “Who can he be?” “Casper Hauser.” “Bless my soul!” “Uncommon countenance.” “Green prophet from Utah.” “Humbug!””Singular innocence.” “Means something.” “Spirit-rapper.” “Moon-calf.” “Piteous.” “Trying to enlist interest.” “Beware of him.” “Fast asleep here, and, doubtless,…
Belie
MW Quotations and Authors: What shall I need to draw my sword? The paperHath cut her throat already. No, ’tis slander,Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongueOutvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breathRides on the posting winds…
Febrile
MW Quotations and Authors: Now, Pierre, if you were in any profession, or in any business at all; nay, if I were a farmer’s wife, and you my child, working in my fields; why, then, you and Lucy should still…
Ragamuffin
MW Quotations and Authors: Why don’t you snap your oars, you rascals? Bite something, you dogs! So, so, so, then:—softly, softly! That’s it—that’s it! long and strong. Give way there, give way! The devil fetch ye, ye ragamuffin rapscallions; ye…
Sere
MW Quotations and Authors: And so doth it480 apere,For481 the grene bare thredes 60Loke lyke sere wedes,Wyddered lyke hay,The woll worne away;And yet I dare sayeShe thynketh herselfe gayeVpon the holy daye,Whan she doth her aray,And gyrdeth in her gytes482Stytched…
White-livered
The OED The colors and shapes of ‘-liveredness‘ white-livered milk-livered lily-livered pidgeon-livered chicken-livered hot livered Quotations and Authors: Let the two edged sword of Gods holy word there asunder the sinowes of worldly respects, euen to the very marrow of…
Absolve
MW Explore absolve and absolved in D. H. Lawrence. Examples of usage by other authors: I felt my soul receding into some pleasant and vicious region; and there again I found it waiting for me. It began to confess to…