Sonnets
['sɑnɪt]
Examples
- The problem is to find something for the common man who is not interested in contemporary churches and who can't write sonnets. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- When did I whip up syllabub sonnets or string stanzas fragile as fragments of glass? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He had no sonnets to write, and it could not strike him agreeably that he was not an object of preference to the woman whom he had preferred. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Would it not be rash to conclude that there was no passion behind those sonnets to Delia which strike us as the thin music of a mandolin? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He wrote poetry--sonnets, stanzas, ballads. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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