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Definition of Dispreads
1. dispread [v] - See also: dispread
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispreads
Literary usage of Dispreads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer (1853)
"110 Twelve feet deform'd and foul the fiend dispreads; Six horrid necks she rears,
and six terrific heads; Her jaws grin dreadful with three rows of teeth; ..."
2. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1894)
"The good life gone lives on in the mind; the bad has but a life in the body, and
that not lasting,—it extends, dispreads, it worms away, it perishes. ..."
3. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1885)
"... it shall be changed : " as, on the blade, dispreads the red corn's3 face, and
changes 'neath The sun's glare its own hue ; so the same flesh, ..."
4. The Complete Poetical Works of James Thomson by James Thomson, James Logie Robertson (1908)
"... Some reach the healing draught: the whilst, to chase The fear supreme, around
their softened beds, Some holy man by prayer all opening heaven dispreads. ..."
5. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by William Carew Hazlitt, Robert Dodsley (1876)
"DE C. Tis his last night with mankind; the Will do't so subtlely : whilst he but
holds the Knife, the least warmth attracts, and so dispreads Itself through ..."
6. Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes by Samuel Austin Allibone (1875)
"... to chase The fear supreme, around their soften'd heads Some holy man by prayer
all.opening Heaven dispreads. THOMSON: Castle of Indolence. ..."
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