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- noun Plural form of
rhymester .
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Examples
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He stands out among contemporary rhymesters — magazine rhymesters — as
Chapter 31 2010
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It is no more an argument against the vital significance of the novel that tens of thousands of people — that everybody, in fact — should today essay that form of art, than it is an argument against poetry that for all the centuries droves and flocks of versifiers and scribblers and rhymesters have succeeded in making the name of poet a little foolish in worldly eyes.
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Ideas breed vocables; but seldom, except among rhymesters, does a vocable give birth to a popular idea: and in Arabic “Sibr,” as well as
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Whom scribbling rhymesters may, with justice, fear.
The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems George W. Doneghy
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Poetry is seldom, if ever, published except at the cost of the poet; and the foreman of one of the leading London houses is deputed to apprize aspiring rhymesters, that
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various
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Of all rhymesters of the '_Road_,' however, Dean Burrowes is, as yet, most fully entitled to the laurel.
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer
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The trouble is, that the early rhymesters have used up the only side of the question capable of poetical treatment.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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Writers who are guilty of this atrocity are not merely to be condemned as bad rhymesters: they are to be blamed on the far more serious ground that they give the sanction and authority of print to one of the vilest vulgarisms which pollutes the oral language of certain provincial societies.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various
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Modern rhymesters more and more affect this thing.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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His style is often as artificial as that of any of its rhymesters: it is full of inversions, freighted with long, formal words, and still more marred by others of a false dilettante ring.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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