enow

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This object swives girls enow, and fancies himself a handsome fellow, and is not condemned to the mill as an ass?

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  • The old Opera House in Frontier Town in th enow-closed Joyland Park was gutted by fire last Friday, dealing another blow to an aging amusement park that has been a Wichita landmark since —  Kansas.com: -- Front
  • Hah! now we are coming to the enow, and shall have to take care He pointed with his ice-axe to where, a hundred yards or so farther on, the surface of the ice suddenly changed; but they did not pass at once on to the snow, for as they neared it they found that they were parted from it by another crevasse of about four feet wide We need not go round this, I suppose," said Dale, as he stood peering down into its depths--Saxe following his example, and listening to a peculiar hissing rush of water far below No, herr, the leap is so short. —  The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps
  • We have lived asunder Too long to meet again--and now to meet Have I not cares enow, and pangs enow To bear alone, that we must mingle sorrows 230 Who have ceased to mingle love Re-enter SALEMENES and ZARINA Sal. —  The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry
  • "Th' sermon was good enow--but I'm bound to get out afore th' collection He was not quite awake yet You're not in church," said Colin Not me," said Ben, straightening himself. —  The Secret Garden
  • Cause we to glide to them sharp darts enow, and teach them to ride the way toward Rome!" —  Roman de Brut. English
 

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  1. Middle English, variant of enogh; see enough.
 

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