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Definition of Rocked
1. rock [v] - See also: rock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rocked
Literary usage of Rocked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"I know thou wilt not slight my call, For thou dost mark the sparrow's fall; And
calm and peaceful shall I sleep, rocked in the cradle of the deep. ..."
2. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"rocked IN THE CRADLE OP THE DEEP. [.4 collection of her Poems, ... And calm and
peaceful shall I sleep, rocked in the cradle of the deep. ..."
3. Modern Russian Poetry: An Anthology by Babette Deutsch, Avrahm Yarmolinsky (1921)
"... THE CAPITALS ARE rocked WITH THUNDER" The capitals are rocked with thunder Of
orators in wordy feuds. But in the depths of Russia, yonder, ..."
4. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2006)
"chance to recover, then, as he rocked and moaned, she calmly took the hunting
knife she'd bought at the Yonge Street sin ..."
5. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"The tale says tiie infant child rocked the monster to death, and so escaped.
An he grew up, ha beauty was so divine that all the princesses of Hindustan ..."
6. Historical Memoirs of My Own Time by Nathaniel William Wraxall (1815)
"... on pillars of the same materials ; yielding to the concussion of the earth,
rocked and waved with the convulsion, thus escaping its worst effects. ..."
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