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Definition of Dangles
1. dangle [v] - See also: dangle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dangles
Literary usage of Dangles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Pilgrim's Reliquary by Thomas Henry White (1845)
"Madame, as usual, dangles the scales in one hand, and brandishes the sword in
the other: as usual too, she is blindfold, but no one who has looked at the ..."
2. The Bontoc Igorot by Albert Ernest Jenks (1905)
"The long slit is desired because the people consider the effect more beautiful
when the ring swings and dangles at the bottom of the pendant ear. ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"But, mother, 'tis vain; but, father, 'tis vain; Stern Hamish stands bold on the
brink, and dangles the child o'er the deep. Now a faintness falls on the men ..."
4. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"But, mother, 'tis vain; but, father, 'tis vain; Stern Hamish stands bold on the
brink, and dangles the child o'er the deep. Now a faintness falls on the men ..."
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