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Examples
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It makes you healthy, wealthy, wise; unless I sound too meek,
Borscht 1986
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And he's aye true, &c. He pu's the bells o 'heather red, and the lily-flowers sae meek,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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'Let each co-pilgrim lean in turn on each,' in anguish meek,
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 Various
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And hope that those creatures, so gentle and meek,
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But as His gaze of purity dwelt on her, searching, meek,
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An 'her words be so kind, an' her speech is so meek,
Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect William Barnes
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Are humbly bent, while the snow-white hands are clasped in fervor meek,
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COLD and clear-cut face, why come you so cruelly meek,
Maud. Part I 1909
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And the stern in sweet marriage is blent with the meek,
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Kuno Francke 1892
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Thou art bounteous, and Draupadi should be modest, wise and meek,
Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse Romesh Dutt 1878
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