Lexicographical Neighbors of Steems
Literary usage of Steems
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin (1830)
"... ever since the creation, has indulged to his enemies all those shining qualities
which the world «steems, and on which it frequently bestows the highest ..."
2. An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History & Literature by Edward Arber (1895)
"But, blinded as She was, She 'steems him not, Hate and Disdain do never brook
respect. She did not know that Beauty's foulest blot consisted in ..."
3. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"Thus his famed picture of the world, as it steems to the natural reason, moving '
as though from unreasoning elements, not towards final causes,' is a ..."
4. The Philosophy of Natural History by William Smellie (1832)
"... and that, therefore, he «steems it a very wild opinion, that terrestrial
animals can remain any long time under water without drowning. ..."
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