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Definition of Ebbed
1. ebb [v] - See also: ebb
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ebbed
Literary usage of Ebbed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"The youth plucked out in vain The hot shaft from the wound; his life and blood
Together ebbed away, as sinking prone On his rent side he fell; ..."
2. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1869)
"... than the true hero and Christian statesman whose life sadly ebbed away amid
the dying groans of his wounded comrades at Lucknow—whose last order was, ..."
3. Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1841)
"... the " meal above the malt," our voices one by one died away; our superb cavalier
looked a little qualmish; G.'s gentle current ebbed; L. laid her head ..."
4. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"... term "branch of the sea," as used at common law, included rivers in which the
tide ebbed and flowed. Arnold v. Mundy, 6 NJ Law (l Halst) l, 86, ..."
5. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1901)
"... stood the venerable mansion of Richard Horn, could describe with such sympathy
and charm the life that ebbed and flowed there during the late fifties. ..."
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