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Definition of Shapeliest
1. shapely [adj] - See also: shapely
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shapeliest
Literary usage of Shapeliest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Language and Literature of the Scottish Highlands by John Stuart Blackie (1876)
"Rare jewel of mortals, Though banned from my sight, With my heart I thee worship,
Thou shapeliest knight! VIII. With my heart I thee worship, ..."
2. The Language and Literature of the Scottish Highlands by John Stuart Blackie (1876)
"Rare jewel of mortals, Though banned from my sight, With my heart I thee worship,
Thou shapeliest knight! VIII. With my heart I thee worship, ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"... distressing trivialities such as the wedding of an earl's second cousin in a
country vicarage, or a competition for the shapeliest ankles in Brighton. ..."
4. The World's Best Poetry by Bliss Carman (1904)
"Not in the temple of shapeliest mould, Polished with marble and gleaming with
gold, Piled upon pillars of slenderest grace, But here in the blue sky's ..."
5. The World's Best Poetry by Bliss Carman (1904)
"Not in the temple of shapeliest mould, Polished with marble and gleaming with
gold, Piled upon pillars of slenderest grace, But here in the blue sky's ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1860)
"... the cockle-shell " the pilgrim bears, But shell of shapeliest NATIVE—to be
placed In glistening row around that humble sod By row on row thus circled. ..."
7. Heroines of Fiction by William Dean Howells (1903)
"It remains the best of his novels, the shapeliest, the sanest; and the necessity
which he was in, through the form, of working out character inductively, ..."
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