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Definition of Displodes
1. displode [v] - See also: displode
Lexicographical Neighbors of Displodes
Literary usage of Displodes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"... attains his [114] end, and secures the most important part of the country;
whereas "Uncle Sam," displodes a volley of words, inveighs and storms! ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Such is the roar of Etna, when bis mouth displodes combustion from his sulph'rous
depths To blast the ..."
3. The Modern Philosopher, Or, Terrible Tractoration!: In Four Cantos, Most by Thomas Green Fessenden (1806)
"... going to the bottom of our revolutionary descent—that we must sit on our
breeches and wait till faction's volcano displodes, and sends us to the moon. ..."
4. Selections from the Writings of the Late Thomas Hedges Genin: With a by Thomas Hedges Genin (1869)
"... and confusion rose ; The field was whelm'd in flames, and heaven o'erspread
With clouds and terrors : Gabriel there displodes Th' artillery of puissant ..."
5. The Fredoniad, Or, Independence Preserved: An Epick Poem on the Late War of 1812 by Richard Emmons (1830)
"They poise it o'er the lake: th' expanding heat displodes the tempests, which,
in whirlwinds, beat Dire on the surface of the burning sea, ..."
6. The Orators of France by Louis-Marie de Lahaye Cormenin, George Hooker Colton, Joel Tyler Headley (1849)
"The one more dazzling, more thundering than the bolt which leaps from crag to
crag, and displodes in a thousand flashes amid the deep gorges of Hemus; ..."
7. The British poets, including translations by British poets (1822)
"... when his mouth displodes combustion from his sulphurous depths, To blast the
smiles of nature. Dauntless stood, In deep array before the Phocian wall, ..."
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