10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STREWMENT»
Discover the use of
strewment in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
strewment and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
But here is a sweeter strewment— “ a vision upon this conceipt of the Fairy
Queen"-wbo wears a crown of diamonds, beautiful as dewdrops, trembling
between life and deathyet destined to outlast the stars. “ Methought I saw the
grave where ...
The winds forbid the flowers to flourish long, Which owe to winds their name in
Grecian song." OviD.t Hence it is peculiarly appropriate for emblematical
strewment on the resting-place of the departed : — "I would have strew'd, With all
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Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages
Shower of stones or balls ; scattering, strewment. 5. Slander, malicious censure.
Rociador, sm. Instrument with which cloth is sprinkled. Rociamiento, sm.
Sprinkling or bedewing. RociXr, vn. To be bedewed or sprinkled with drops of
dew ; to fall ...
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Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and ...
I will not undertake to determine whether all the roof had been thatched : I think
not, certainly in some parts we found no signs ; but in others, both from above
and beneath the timber, was removed a strewment of rushes and grass of various
...
Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1857
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Mneme's Place: Book One
After the music from the rec hut ends, rigging himself in poncho between two
boulders and resting on a strewment of stones, as often as not waking up in mud.
And with or without their thick-lensed glasses, likewise little difficulty in
recognizing ...
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A General Dictionary of the English Language
STRETCHER,. streW-sir. s. Any. thing. used. for extension ; the timber against
which the rower plants his feet. To STREW, stro'. v. a. To spread by being
scattered ; to spread by scattering ; to scatter loosely. STREWMENT, stro'-ment s.
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A critical pronouncing dictionary, and expositor of the ...
Any □ thing used for extension -r the timber against which the rower places his
feet. To Strew, stro. -v. a. (266). To spread by being scattered; to spread try
scattering: ,to scatter loosely. StrewMent, stre/mfint. s. Any thing scattered in
decoration.
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Fivefathers: Interviews with Late Twentieth-Century Scottish ...
Dunes were pale with strewment of boards. Seaward a keel was set. Sprang from
that spine a vibrant cluster of ribs. (CP 90) [GMB] I read Anglo-Saxon at
Edinburgh and I liked it very much—after I got over the initial difficulties. But
Beowulf and ...
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Sheridan Improved: A General Pronouncing and Explanatory ...
v. a. to spread by being scattered ; to spread by scattering ; to Icatter loosely
STREWMENT, ( str&'-mint.) s. any thing scattered in decoration STRICKEN, (strlk'
-kn.) the ancient participle of Strike STRICKLE, (strik'-kl.) s. that which strikes the ...
Stephen Jones, Thomas Sheridan, 1798
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of ...
Drjdrn. * STREWMENT. n. t. [from strrw.J Any thing scattered in decoration. —
Here (he is allow'd her virgin chants, Her maiden itrewments, and the bringing
home OTbeM and Miirial. Shut. * STRIJE. n s. [Latin.] In natural history, the small
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis, 1816
