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Definition of Recoyles
1. recoyle [v] - See also: recoyle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recoyles
Literary usage of Recoyles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1903)
"... With Lijah and with Lisha am I tied, My soul recoyles like Cora Doctor's Wife,
Like her I feer I cannot bare this life. ..."
2. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1910)
"My soul recoyles like Cora Doctor's Wife, Like her I feer I cannot bare this life.
I am going to try for the speling prize but fear I cannot get it. ..."
3. The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1896)
"... and is more easily managed, and recoyles no more than that, which is a thing
so extraordinary as to be admired for the happiness of his invention, ..."
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