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  • adjective obsolete shiny

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Examples

  • Tho shee strove not to make that sweetnesse sheene.

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • Alenge [34] from bark to bark the bryghte sheene [35] flyes;

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • Whose eyne dyd feerie sheene, like blue-hayred defs [9],

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • Amenge the drybblett [60] ons to sheene fulle bryghte;

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • Botte soare on hyghe, & yn the sonne-bemes sheene;

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • Nete in thys forreste, botte thys tore [111], dothe sheene, 1020

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • Kyng Adland hath a daughter, brother, men call her bright and sheene;

    Kyng Estmere 1898

  • You have a daughter, said Adler younge, men call her bright and sheene;

    Kyng Estmere 1898

  • When shawes [9] beene sheene [10], and shradds [11] full fayre,

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • Gentile Jew baiters then picked up the emphatic sheene of sheene Yeedo without necessarily understanding it quite, but realizing that it wasn't exactly complimentary. "

    OUPblog SarahN 2009

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