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Definition of Shined
1. shine [v] - See also: shine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shined
Literary usage of Shined
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"Samuel Johnson in his 1755 Dictionary gave shone as the primary past tense and
past participle with shined as the secondary past and past participle. ..."
2. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, George Wiley Sherburn, Howard Mumford Jones, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"THINE EYES STILL shined* Thine eyes still shined for me, though far I lonely
roved the land or sea: As I behold yon evening star, Which yet beholds not me. ..."
3. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Wiley Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"THINE EYES STILL shined^ As I behold yon evening star, Which yet beholds not me.
Thine eyes still shined for me, though far I lonely roved the land or sea: ..."
4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... MP О strenuous spirit, darkling hast thou shined! О light unto thy country,
who hast lent Eyes to the dim hope of the ignorant! ..."
5. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"... began to be ' poured forth upon all flesh,' according to the prophet Joel,
and the light that shined in darkness, or but dimly before, the most gracious ..."
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