10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DERNFUL»
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A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
Art/tour and Merlin, p 44. To DERNE, v. n. To hide one's self, to skulk. But look
how soon they heard of Holoferne Their coumge quail'd, and they began to deme
. Hudson [Du Barlas], zn Engl. Parn., cited by G. Mason. DERNFUL, as used ...
Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright, 1867
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A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete ...
On every post, on uche detnere. The syne of thayn make je there. Cureur Mundi,
MS. Coll. Trin. Cantab, f. 28. DERNFUL. Dismal j sad. Nam. DERNLY. Severely ;
sadly. Spenser. See also Towneley Myst. p. 141. DEROGATE. Degraded. Shah.
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, 1868
251 Demayne, demeanour, ii. 224 Demean, to disgrace, vilify, iv. 151 Demijl,
humble, v. 21 1 Deny, to refuse, iii. 3 1 6 Dernful, dismal, dark, v. 8 5 Dernly,
secretly, darkly, mournfully, ii. 98, 342 ; iii. 73 Derring do, a daring or bold
enterprise, i.
Edmund Spenser, John Payne Collier, 1862
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The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ... from the text of J. ...
Edmund Spenser, John Aikin. Amid the clouds, with claps Of thunder, that did
seem To rent the skies, and made Both men and beast afeard. The birds bf ill
presage r This luckless chance fore-told By dernful noise, and dogs With howling
...
Edmund Spenser, John Aikin, 1810
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Hymns. Visions. Elegiac poems
Edmund Spenser, John Aikin. Amid the clouds, with claps _ Of thunder, that did
seem To rent the skies, and made Both men and beast afcard. The birds of ill
presage This luckless chance fore-told - By dernful noise, and dogs With howling
...
Edmund Spenser, John Aikin, 1810
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Dictionary of obsolete and provincial English
Dernere, s. A threshold. Dernful, adj. Dismal; sad. Spens. Dernly, adv. Mournfully;
severely. Spens. Derogate, part. p. Degraded. Deroy,».(1) (Fr.) A sort of cloth. (2)
A company. North. Derre, adj. (A.-S.) Dearer. Derrest, adj. Noblest. Gawayne.
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The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ...
Dernful, dismal, dark. Dernly, secretly, darkly, mournfully. Derring do, a daring or
bold enterprise. Derring doers, daring doers. Designing, pointing out, signifying.
Desse, dais, raised platform. Diapred, diversified, dappled. Diffused, dispersed.
Edmund Spenser, John Payne Collier, Norris Deck, 1866
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The Poetry of He Zhu (1052-1125): Genres, Contexts, and ...
(D5) Parched sky and cloud-hue ever so dernful and drear. (A5) A fresh wind
rolls up the ground and turns the dusty world; 4 (B17) white rain penetrates the
grove and tumbles ocean waves. (C15) By far it surpasses the vigor of a peasant
boy ...
Stuart Howard Sargent, 2007
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RHE POETICAL WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
The birds of ill presage This luckless chance fore-told By dernful noise, and dogs
With howling made men deem Some mischief was at hand 5 For such they do
esteem As tokens of mishap, And so have done of old. AM that thou hadst but ...
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Poems, by Hugh Downman, M.D.
Yet sich her sway that she to earth could bring, From their eternal steels, Angelic
Quires, Who round about her gently hovering, Tun'd at her will their golden-
stringed lyres; Or maugre dernful Pluto's grisly fires, Would cleave the earth and ...
