Lexicographical Neighbors of Priefs
Literary usage of Priefs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1843)
"Yet write, oh: write me all, that I may join Griefs to tby priefs. and echo sighs
to thine : Nor foes nor fortune take this jww'r away, And is my Abelard ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... not from my love these priefs did grow, Yet was, alas, the thing I did nut know.
My wily nurse by long experience found, And first discover'd to my soul ..."
3. Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity by Society of Antiquaries of London (1786)
"... contrary to the tenor of holy writ; where a mighty difference is put betwixt
the priefs of the Lord, ..."
4. Hymnal of the Methodist Episcopal Church: With Tunes. by Methodist Episcopal Church (1878)
"4 Then,-with my waking thoughts Bright with thy praise, Out of my stony priefs
Bethel I'll raise; So by my woes to be Nearer, my God, to thee, ..."
5. Hymnal of the Methodist Episcopal Church: With Tunes by Methodist Episcopal Church (1882)
"4 Then, with my waiting thoughts Bright with thy praise, Out of my stony priefs
Bethel I'll raise: So by my woes to be Nearer, my God, to thee, ..."
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