10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DINTLESS»
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dintless in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The images flicker; the fellaheen fall By the tens of thousands; change the
channel, please. dintless: Not just the natives, but our native sons, Dintless and
dauntless, newly minted knights, Trudge into the desert to be slain or maimed, All
for the ...
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
Phr. To take one's dint, to receive punishment. Not. He took his dint (J.H.B.). 3.
Vigour, energy. Cnm.l ' He hez some dint in him,' he will make his mark. Hence
Dintless, adj. lacking in energy. Cum. It's all along of my being dintless, Came
Shad.
... but all fell printless — Its hide of stony proof was dintless. Sweeping its furious
tail around, It caught, and flung me to the ground : — Now were its jaws
distended o'er me, Its horrid teeth all bare before me ; When, mad with rage, on
spring my ...
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Translations in Poetry and Prose from Celebrated German Writers
“ Quick from my steed I spring, and bear My ready brand with threatful air ; But all
my blows fall dintless on That harness harder than the stone, And with his tail,
wide lashing round, It brings me powerless to the ground. Already see'med its ...
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A Commentary Or Exposition Upon All the Books of the New ...
That ye/hould not he offended] S with a thing unexpefied and intolerable. Darts
foreseen are dintless- Crosses coming on the sudden, find weak minds secure,
make them miserable, leave them desperate. Verse 2. Whasoe-uer killed: you, &c
.
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A book of English prose, selected chiefly from recent and ...
... last in their luxuriance are deep and rich as herbage, yet both for the most part
humblest of the green things that live), — how of these ? Meek creatures ! the first
mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks ; creatures ...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
... from my steed'l spring, and bear ' ' , l My ready brand with threatful air, But all
my blows fall dintless on' That harnes harder than the stone, And with its tail, wide
lashing round, It brin s me powerless to the round. Alrea y seem'd its yawning ...
... then cried he: "The thing wehere did purpose/'tis need we nowgiveo'er, For I
behold the Fiddler/ standingguard before the door. 1841 “Upon his head a
helmet / of glancing light is seen, Welded strong and skilful, / dintless, of clearest
sheen.
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A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and ...
... hushed softness its dintless rocks; creatures full of pity, covering with strange
and tender honor the scarred disgrace of ruin,' — laying quiet finger on the
trembling stones, to teach them rest. No words, that I know of, will say what these
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Charles Dudley Warner, 2008
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Collection Of Atlantis:
... though of inferior organisation, had, by dintless of their virtues than their vices,
suchas ferocity and cunning, gradually acquired ascendancy, muchas
amongthehuman race itself tribes utterly barbarous have, by superiority in similar
vices, ...
