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Definition of Bemires
1. bemire [v] - See also: bemire
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bemires
Literary usage of Bemires
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by William Young Sellar (1897)
"While blustering Alpinus strangles Memnon, and disfigures and bemires the source
of the Rhine by ..."
2. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1864)
"... the sustaining and uplifting energy with which we prosecute a purpose: the
joy or loathing that wings or bemires our steps, in whatever we undertake, ..."
3. The English Lyric by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1913)
"... tells how he drinks drops of the heavenly flood and bemires his Maker with
returning mud. And yet the cause of these conceits may be attributable to ..."
4. English Literature During the Lifetime of Shakespeare by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1910)
"He drinks the drops of the heavenly flood and bemires his Maker with returning
mud; Peter's heart was not thawed by the fire before which he sat, ..."
5. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"Perhaps from E. daggle, v., as denoting one who bemires himself in going from
place to place. DAGH, DAIGH, ». Dough. "But the wind will blow that god to the ..."
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