Lexicographical Neighbors of Spooms
Literary usage of Spooms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"... and cordials to my mind: When virtue spooms before a prosp'rous gale, 1390 My
heaving wishes help to fill the sail; And if my pray'rs for all the brave ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"Dryden, from whom it has been nUo quoted, seems to describe a successful, rather
than a peculiarly rapid motion : When virtue spooms before a ..."
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