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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
rhapsodise .
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Examples
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Cattrall's Cleopatra loves Antony most in his absence; and she clinches the point beautifully when, after his death, she rhapsodises a lover who, in a sense, existed only in her dreams.
Antony and Cleopatra - review Michael Billington 2010
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Jennings rhapsodises the river that dressed the events of that summer in their enduring magic.
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He rhapsodises about his Uncle Isaac removing his bandages at the end of each day, and smelling of "all kinds of medicaments".
Alan Yentob: 'I could have run the BBC ? but I'd probably have been sacked' 2010
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Toynbeecertainly rhapsodises enoughabout David Miliband.
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Flemish poet thus rhapsodises over his countrywomen's handiworks:
Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Emily Leigh Lowes
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Walt Whitman and Blake; it hangs bad reproductions of Botticelli round the walls; it sings songs to Freedom; it rhapsodises about Beethoven and
A Dominie in Doubt Alexander Sutherland Neill 1928
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"Abolish luxury, if you please," -- thus he rhapsodises, -- "but leave us the soil upon which alone the virtues and all that is precious in human character grow, -- poverty, honest poverty!"
American Sketches 1908 Charles Whibley 1894
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He briefly rhapsodises about the beautiful summers, the mountains and the skiing, before adding, Thankfully I travel a lot because if I was just based here and not travelling, I'd be around the twist by now.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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He rhapsodises about the Icelandic countryside and reminisces about an Icelandic friend he made at Peking University in the 1970s.
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"It's such an incredible survival," rhapsodises Sir Roy Strong.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Clive Aslet 2012
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