Verses

Examples

• They recited the verses which they had composed, to celebrate his valour and his victories. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Did not an immortal physicist and interpreter of hieroglyphs write detestable verses? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• That is all; the other verses are singularly complimentary to Ephesus. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Mama used to teach me to dance and sing, and to say verses. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Wait till Mr. Ablewhite's verses are followed by Mr. Ablewhite himself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• St. Clare read on in an animated voice, till he came to the last of the verses. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Poor Dagley read a few verses sometimes on a Sunday evening, and the world was at least not darker to him than it had been before. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• My daughter replied, that Mr. Franklin might strike in, and try his luck, before the verses were followed by the poet. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Truly it fulfils the prophecy so gracefully expressed in the verses quoted, and has become the common bond of union among the nations of the earth. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He also enclosed a copy of verses on what he elegantly called his cousin's natal day. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Quoted verses respecting self and young Gazelle. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I am growing great in Latin verses, and neglect the laces of my boots. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Caroline, beginning in a low, rather tremulous voice, but gaining courage as she proceeded, repeated the sweet verses of Chénier. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Franklin's great-grandfather had been imprisoned for writing sa tirical verses about some provincial magnate. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Your Elizabethan ancestor was not healthy-minded, said Caliphronas coolly; if he had been he would never have written such silly verses. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Emma was a regular County Bulbul, and her verses in the Hampshire Telegraph were the glory of its Poet's Corner. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I never thought it would go where it could tell tales, said Jo, tearing up the verses the Professor had treasured so long. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• There were about twenty verses of this delectable song, interlarded at times with the rude music of the sabouna. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Keimer made verses too, but very indifferently. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• A calm, subdued triumph, blent with a longing earnestness, marked his enunciation of the last glorious verses of that chapter. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• One prisoner of fifteen years had scratched verses upon his walls, and brief prose sentences--brief, but full of pathos. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I have read, writes his brother, copies of verses addressed to him then, . Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He could knock you off forty Latin verses in an hour. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He was author of some elegant verses on the death of Queen Caroline, and published besides some poems and sermons, and died 1788. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I made the music for Father, because he likes the verses. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• If you talk of intellect, he is a poet--he writes verses; which you, I take it, cannot do, with all your cleverness. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Only think of those sweet verses'To Miss . Jane Austen. Emma.
• Nicholas Scull, a surveyor, afterward surveyor-general, who loved books, and sometimes made a few verses. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Many's the time I've repeated the verses in the seventh chapter to myself, just for the sound. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

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