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Definition of Embays
1. embay [v] - See also: embay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embays
Literary usage of Embays
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"Wm;- ham was also employed on two embays into France. As early as 2 July 1253 he
was probably connected with the chancery ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"... strait embays us, Our fleets shall sail, with the first fair gale ;— That must
be a belli casus ! To go so far may disgrace us- But, not having a belli ..."
3. A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and by John Foster Kirk, Kirk, John Foster, 1824-1904, Samuel Austin Allibone (1899)
"Love and Marriage ; or, The Way to Domestic Happiness, Lon., 1863, -vu. 11.
Self-Culture, Lon., ISM, Svo. 12. An Essay I'D the " embays and Reviews," Lon., ..."
4. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1878)
"FRANCE and England having completed their private understanding, special embassies
on both May sides paraded the friendship before the world, embays The ..."
5. Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews by Thomas Henry Huxley (1903)
"Northward, the chalk may be followed as far as Yorkshire ; on the south coast it
appears abruptly in the picturesque west embays of Dorset, and breaks into ..."
6. A Subject Index to the Poems of Edmund Spenser by Charles Huntington Whitman (1919)
"Repentance (1): body of Red Cross Knight, embays in salt water, 1.10.27.5; 1.10.29.2.
Repentance (2): in Mask of Cupid, 3.12.24. ..."
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