Examples
“QUOTATION: There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a mans life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.”
“Dear Abby Kelley! she lies upon a sick bed now, but surely there are those, beside the bondmen for whom she labored through those weary years, who, remembering what a faithful Mentor she was to their undisciplined natures, will 'rise to call her blest!”
“Her friends, her neighbours too, do call her blest;”
“8467There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a mans life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.”
“3There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a mans life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.”
“In this brief hour, the lover is so thoroughly "blest" as to have but one desire left -- that it should last forever!”
“And yet _Pindar_ tells us [908] that the abode of the blest is a glorious existence, where the sun shines bright through the entire night in meadows red with roses, an extensive plain full of shady trees ever in bloom never in fruit, watered by gentle purling streams, and there the blest ones pass their time away in thinking and talking about the past and present in social converse .... [”
“There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched. [”
“Her friends, her neighbours too, do call her blest (Psa.”
“Swift down the mad dance, while blest health prompts to move,”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘blest’.
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Past tense in -t.
Some words are always like this. Some only when British or archaic. Some are just fun.
built, spent, bent, spilt, spoilt, ruint, thought, caught, brought, wisht, pent, spelt and 74 more...
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Thomas Hardy
For his poemage.
honeysucks, beeches, esculent, heath, furze, blest, o'ergrown, eft, heathcropper, powerfuller, crass casualty, dicing time and 11 more...
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Doctor Faustus
Various words from the play by Christopher Marlowe.
Good Angel, Bad Angel, pride, covetousness, envy, wrath, gluttony, sloth, lechery, vintner, horse-courser, Helen of Troy and 148 more...
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Activated Phonemes
This list was generated by first taking a letter from the alphabet, or any of the initial cluster set of phonesthemes compiled by the ingenious Benjamin Shisler) and then sticking one of the suffix...
bing, ding, ging, jing, ling, ming, king, ping, ring, sing, ting, wing and 189 more...
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US - national anthem vocabulary
All words and phrases (except the most common articles and prepositions)
For a word frequency analysis see:
air, band, foe, beam, blest, God, banner, battle, battle's~confusion, blood, blow, bomb and 174 more... -
passivepandora's Words
prescient, hysteria, thrombosis, asinine, argyle, absentee, blest, scruples, vestigial, awol, incomplete, entropy and 32 more...
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