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  • noun Plural form of rhime.

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Examples

  • I am particularly pleased with the view through the arch, and the other speaks as plainly my language in the rhimes as it possibly could.

    Letter 259 2009

  • Yet the lopping, and drilling such a new regiment of rhimes fit for your amusement, will take me some months, but I have gone much too far to recede receed.

    Letter 217 2009

  • It closes a couplet and rhimes to a complete dissyllable in one of the most finishd productions of one of our most correct poets in the mechanism of versification.

    Letter 111 2009

  • I chose to do it in rhime for this reason; because I found allways that when I put two or three lines together in blank verse, or something that sounded like it, it was a great chance if it stood right when it came to be wrote down, for blank verse have ten syllables in a line, and this particular I could not adjust, nor bear in memory as I could rhimes.

    Letter 10 2009

  • I am however very glad to have lived to see your poems: they have given me and my family an uncommon pleasure, and, they will have the same effect on all kindred minds and that's enough; for, as for writing rhimes for

    Letter 349 2009

  • The Italians are so fond of poetry, that many of them, have the best part of Ariosto, Tasso, and Petrarch, by heart; and these are the great sources from which the Improvisatori draw their rhimes, cadence, and turns of expression.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • As an instance of this, it seems that an inferiour domestick of the Duke of Leeds had attempted to celebrate his Grace's marriage in such homely rhimes as he could make; and this curious composition having been sung to Dr. Johnson he got it by heart, and used to repeat it in a very pleasant manner.

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • With uncouth rhimes and shapeless sculpture deck'd,

    Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library 1884

  • Konnie: rhimes is the country female michael jackson. she didn't get

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • And to this the pleasure we receive from the rhimes and alliterations of modern versification; the source of which without this key would be difficult to discover.

    Note XIII 1803

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