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  • De la Mare's chief distinction, however, lies not so much in what he says as in how he says it; he can even take outworn words like "thridding," "athwart," "amaranthine" and make them live again in a poetry that is of no time and of all time.

    Biographical Sketches Louis Untermeyer 1920

  • "thridding," "athwart," "amaranthine" and make them live again in a poetry that is of no time and of all time.

    Modern British Poetry Louis Untermeyer 1931

  • Every flower was gleaming white or crimson black, and the air was aquiver with the thridding of small crickets and nightingales singing unseen in the depths of the trees.

    The Door in the Wall, and other stories Herbert George 2006

  • One evening, but shrewdly in time for supper, a couple of Mexicans on horses, thridding their way through the mesquites, came into the ranch, quickly followed by others, one or two on _burros_, more on ponies, most on the skeleton of a prairieschooner drawn by four horses, -- and the shearers had arrived.

    Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

  • With a thridding of engine and a play of lamps which turned green landscape, gray, it drew up short, a rattling at the screen door following almost immediately.

    Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928

  • Long after the thridding of engine had died down, and the purple quiet flowed over the path of twin lamplights, Miss Hoag stood in her half-open screen door, gazing after.

    Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928

  • Birds are singing, crickets are thridding in the grass and the air is full of the minute clamouring, murmuring and infinitesimal shouting of little living things.

    The Red Horizon Patrick MacGill 1926

  • Ennui stood, his hand on Sallow's muzzle, lightly thridding the dusky labyrinths of the orchard with his faint green eyes.

    Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance Walter De la Mare 1914

  • And under this aspect it suggests a significant comparison with another and better known set of "articles" composed nearly eleven centuries later, when the leaders of the Anglican schism were thridding a careful way between the extremes of Roman teaching on the one side and of Lutheran and

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • Every flower was gleaming white or crimson black, and the air was aquiver with the thridding of small crickets and nightingales singing unseen in the depths of the trees.

    The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories Herbert George 1911

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