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Definition of Delved
1. delve [v] - See also: delve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Delved
Literary usage of Delved
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1849)
"With my babe beside me sleeping, Quick my thrifty wheel I ply ; Thou who long
hast dug the soil, Time has longer delved at thee ; May the harvest of his ..."
2. Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York by William H. Steele, Charles Elliott Fitch (1900)
"We have not delved into religious matters, have not gone into sectarian questions,
although I am sorry to say I have observed too much of it in the remarks ..."
3. The Forgiveness of Sins: And Other Sermons by George Adam Smith (1904)
"Sing ye back to her 1 Well which princes digged, Which nobles of the people
delved, With the sceptre and with their staves, [From the desert a ..."
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