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Definition of Squinted
1. squint [v] - See also: squint
Lexicographical Neighbors of Squinted
Literary usage of Squinted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"The gong-beater came, and he squinted also, and beat upon his gong. ... And they
all squinted alike—both the serpents and the crocodiles. Then my old enemy, ..."
2. A Century of Anecdote from 1760-1860 by John Timbs (1864)
"ON A POETESS WHO squinted. To no one muse does she her glance confine, But has
an eye, at once, to all the nine.—T. Moore. ..."
3. "Tell it All": The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism : an Autobiography by Mrs T B H Stenhouse, T. B. H. Stenhouse, Fanny Stenhouse (1874)
"Stout in Proportion—Old enough to be his Grandmother, and squinted—Getting used
to a proposed Bride—Watching a Truant Husband—Not the least Jealous? ..."
4. "Tell it All": The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism. An Autobiography by T. B. H. Stenhouse, Fanny Stenhouse, Harriet Beecher Stowe (1875)
"Stout in Proportion—Old enough to be his Grandmother, and squinted—Getting used
to a proposed Bride—Watching a Truant Husband—Not the least Jealous? ..."
5. "Tell it All": the Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism: An Autobiography by T. B. H. Stenhouse (1878)
"Stout in Proportion—Old enough to be his Grandmother, and squinted—Getting used
to a proposed Bride—Watching a Truant Husband—Not the least Jealous? ..."
6. Letters to a Friend: Written to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr, 1866-1879 by John Muir (1915)
"... a globular capsule and af squinted, cowl-shaped calyptra. Do you know it?
( Yosemite, May I7th, 1870. Our valley is just gushing, throbbing full of open ..."
7. The Metropolitan (1843)
"O, hon- he squinted ! That, of course, was before squinting went out of fashion.
... Now, the squinting gentleman most certainly squinted towards " The Fool ..."
8. The Eye in health and disease: Being a Series of Articles on the Anatomy and by Benjamin Joy Jeffries (1871)
"One of the teachers, however, he found squinted periodically, although her ...
Upon further examination, he found that those who squinted without cause had, ..."
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