Sandys
Cited as Sandys. — 40 quotations
Convert
A red dust which converth into worms.
Counter
Which [darts] they never throw counter, but at the back of the flier.
Ditty
And to the warbling lute soft ditties sing.
Down
Seven thousand broad-tailed sheep grazed on his downs.
Drill
Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills.
Eschew
He who obeys, destruction shall eschew.
Farce
Farcing his letter with fustian.
Flag
The sides and floor are all flagged with . . . marble.
Fore
Sailed on smooth seas, by fore winds borne.
Gage
Nor without gages to the needy lend.
Ganch
Ganching, which is to let fall from on high upon hooks, and there to hang until they die.
Impudently
At once assail With open mouths, and impudently rail.
Ingeminate
. . . She yet ingeminates The last of sounds, and what she hears relates.
Level
And their proud structures level with the ground.
Magi
The inspired Magi from the Orient came.
neighbor
Leisurely ascending hills that neighbor the shore.
Prick
The cooks prick it [a slice] on a prong of iron.
Produce
This soil produces all sorts of palm trees.
Profound
God in the fathomless profound Hath all this choice commanders drowned.
Prong
Prick it on a prong of iron.
Rape
And ruined orphans of thy rapes complain.
Where now are all my hopes? O, never more Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore.
Redeem
The Almighty from the grave Hath me redeemed.
Regard
It is peninsula which regardeth the mainland.
Requiem
Else had I an eternal requiem kept, And in the arms of peace forever slept.
Restitution
He restitution to the value makes.
Ruin
Though he his house of polished marble build, Yet shall it ruin like the moth's frail cell.
Sackcloth
Thus with sackcloth I invest my woe.
Shed
Sheds of reeds which summer's heat repel.
Shroud
Swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds.
Shuttle
Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide My feathered hours.
Starve
Have I seen the naked starve for cold?
Stave
All the wine in the city has been staved.
Streak
A mule . . . streaked and dappled with white and black.
Table
A bagnio paved with fair tables of marble.
Tardy
And check the tardy flight of time.
Vault
The silent vaults of death.
Vomit
Like vomit from his yawning entrails poured.
Walk
The mountains are his walks.
With
Can blazing carbuncles with her compare.