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Definition of Dishevels
1. dishevel [v] - See also: dishevel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dishevels
Literary usage of Dishevels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore by Thomas Moore (1910)
"... dishevels That hold her and hug lier, and keep her from heaven Ì Then, the
music—so softly its cadences die, So divinely—oh, DOLLY ! between you and I, ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"The sun burns sere and the rain dishevels One gaunt, bleak blossom of scentless
breath; Only the wind here hovers and revels In a round where life seems ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"The sun burns sear, and the rain dishevels One gaunt bleak blossom of scentless
breath. Only the wind here hovers and revels In a round where life seems ..."
4. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1918)
"The sun burns sere and the rain dishevels One gaunt bleak blossom of scentless
breath. Only the wind here hovers and revels In a round where life seems ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1818)
"... Psyche dishevels Her bhck (lowing hair, and by demons the ground. is driven,
Oh ! who does Dot envy those rude little devils. That hold her and hug her, ..."
6. Anthology of Russian Literature from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Leo Wiener (1903)
"... but some special kind of wind that flaps its noiseless wings way above the
earth—dishevels his hair Below, way, way down, walk tiny people, ..."
7. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"The sun burns sear, and the rain dishevels One gaunt bleak blossom of scentless
breath. Only the wind here hovers and revels In a round where life seems ..."
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