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Definition of Reediest
1. reedy [adj] - See also: reedy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reediest
Literary usage of Reediest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"... and reediest little rascal that ever rustled, and he was on the very edge of
the Moor. That he had fish we all persisted in believing, in spite of all ..."
2. The History of Early English Literature: Being the History of English Poetry by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1892)
"... aped the gates of all the wounds ; then out gushed the blood From the foe's
bite on the body ; and the blaze devoured all, (',reediest it of ghosts. ..."
3. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"For its antagonist and necessary check, this memento has that which is conveyed
by a succeeding principle :—viz. The reediest ..."
4. A Passionate Pilgrim, and Other Tales by Henry James (1903)
"... up the stream to Iffley and to the slanting woods of Nune- ham, — the sweetest,
flattest, reediest stream-side landscape that the heart need demand. ..."
5. Speeches of Lord Erskine: While at the Bar by Thomas Erskine Erskine, James Lambert High (1876)
"... your lordships were pleased to grant my reediest, which I considered as a
personal civility to myself; but I was prevented, by extreme sickness, ..."
6. The Recreations of Christopher North: Pseud by John Wilson (1842)
"... and reediest little rascal that ever rustled, and he was on the very edge of
the Moor. That he had fish we all persisted in believing, in spite of all ..."
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