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Definition of Shapelier
1. shapely [adj] - See also: shapely
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shapelier
Literary usage of Shapelier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"The literary technique is so much better than Scott's; the story is so much
shapelier, the style so much clearer and quicker, the diction so much more ..."
2. The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest; the by Upton Sinclair (1915)
"And now our shapelier waves of sound break into a mere foam of oath and shriek.
At times there is an interval of silence more awful than the tumult; ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"... golden bloom : But mingling now the verdant Broom, With flow'r« of rival lustre
deck'd, Uplifts its shapelier form erect. ..."
4. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"Haply her truant tresses mock Some coronal of shapelier block, To wit, the bounding
billy-cock. Withal she hath a loaded gun, Whereat the pheasants, ..."
5. Heroines of Fiction by William Dean Howells (1903)
"The literary technique is so much better than Scott's; the story is so much
shapelier, the style so much clearer and quicker, the diction so much more ..."
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