Sandys

Cited as Sandys. — 40 quotations

Convert

A red dust which converth into worms.

Counter

Which [darts] they never throw counter, but at the back of the flier.

Ditty

And to the warbling lute soft ditties sing.

Down

Seven thousand broad-tailed sheep grazed on his downs.

Drill

Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills.

Eschew

He who obeys, destruction shall eschew.

Farce

Farcing his letter with fustian.

Flag

The sides and floor are all flagged with . . . marble.

Fore

Sailed on smooth seas, by fore winds borne.

Gage

Nor without gages to the needy lend.

Ganch

Ganching, which is to let fall from on high upon hooks, and there to hang until they die.

Impudently

At once assail With open mouths, and impudently rail.

Ingeminate

. . . She yet ingeminates The last of sounds, and what she hears relates.

Level

And their proud structures level with the ground.

Magi

The inspired Magi from the Orient came.

neighbor

Leisurely ascending hills that neighbor the shore.

Prick

The cooks prick it [a slice] on a prong of iron.

Produce

This soil produces all sorts of palm trees.

Profound

God in the fathomless profound Hath all this choice commanders drowned.

Prong

Prick it on a prong of iron.

Rape

And ruined orphans of thy rapes complain.
Where now are all my hopes? O, never more Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore.

Redeem

The Almighty from the grave Hath me redeemed.

Regard

It is peninsula which regardeth the mainland.

Requiem

Else had I an eternal requiem kept, And in the arms of peace forever slept.

Restitution

He restitution to the value makes.

Ruin

Though he his house of polished marble build, Yet shall it ruin like the moth's frail cell.

Sackcloth

Thus with sackcloth I invest my woe.

Shed

Sheds of reeds which summer's heat repel.

Shroud

Swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds.

Shuttle

Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide My feathered hours.

Starve

Have I seen the naked starve for cold?

Stave

All the wine in the city has been staved.

Streak

A mule . . . streaked and dappled with white and black.

Table

A bagnio paved with fair tables of marble.

Tardy

And check the tardy flight of time.

Vault

The silent vaults of death.

Vomit

Like vomit from his yawning entrails poured.

Walk

The mountains are his walks.

With

Can blazing carbuncles with her compare.