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- noun Plural form of
rhine .
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Examples
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"rhines," in which they lost their way in a helpless fashion, and a pistol that went off in the confusion roused the Royalists, with the result that Monmouth's followers were hopelessly routed, a thousand being slain.
What to See in England Gordon Home 1923
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"rhines," as the country folk called them, which intersected and drained this moorland, making cultivation possible where once had been a great marshy pool with shifting islands here and there, and rush-covered swamps.
The Brown Mask Percy James Brebner 1893
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He was taught to ride on horseback, and early became adept in pole-jumping whilst in the saddle, an art which the Frieslanders of that age had evolved to help their horses across the broad rhines of their country.
The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London 1901
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"The trenches which drain the moor are," Mr. Macaulay adds, "in that country called _rhines_."
Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899
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Very slow our march was, and very careful, for the plain was, as Sir Stephen Timewell had told us, cut across by great ditches or rhines, which could not be passed save at some few places.
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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The monks boiled down the salt of the brine-pits; they copied and illuminated manuscripts in the library; they painted pictures not without rude merit of their own; they ran rhines through the marshy moorland; they tilled the soil with vigour and success.
Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Grant Allen 1873
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Below Angers the valley widens, and as the Mayenne coils away to Ponts de Ce it throws out on either side broad flats, rich in grass and golden flowers, and scored with rhines as straight and choked with water-weeds as the rhines of Somersetshire.
Stray Studies from England and Italy John Richard Greene 1860
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But between them and the enemy lay three broad rhines filled with water and soft mud.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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When Monmouth looked upon Sedgemoor, it had been partially reclaimed by art, and was intersected by many deep and wide trenches which, in that country, are called rhines.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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Why just last weekend we took over an abandoned barn and didn’t suffer one casualty … well all except Col. Bison, who complained of a tummy ache, I warned the phat phuck about the dangers of eating too many pork rhines and Cheetos on an empty stomach.
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