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Definition of Minevers
1. minever [n] - See also: minever
Lexicographical Neighbors of Minevers
Literary usage of Minevers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... Of eiders and of minevers; All limpid honeys that do lie At stamen-bases, nor
deny Bee-thighs, nor any butterfly; The humming-birds' fine roguery, ..."
2. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... Of eiders and of minevers; All limpid honeys that do lie At stamen-bases, nor
deny Bee-thighs, nor any butterfly; The humming-birds' fine roguery, ..."
3. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... Of eiders and of minevers; All limpid honeys that do lie At stamen-bases, nor
deny Bee-thighs, nor any butterfly; The humming-birds' fine roguery, ..."
4. The Algonquin Legends of New England: Or, Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac by Charles Godfrey Leland (1884)
"... eling from the earth to the heavens and changing husbands, these fair minevers
were learning wisdom, rapidly. So the elder sister, who had not the least ..."
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