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Use in Literature

Meads

Now let us march to Abis' silver streams, That clearly glide along the Champaign fields, And moist the grassy meads with humid drops.–Shakespeare Apocrypha in Locrine / Mucedorus.

I saw uncase Already her whom he had made his prize, And force her to the cavern to retrace Her steps: we, couching in our quaint disguise, Wend with the flock, where us the shepherd leads, Through verdant mountains, into pleasant meads.–Ludovico Ariosto in Orlando Furioso.

Full of such agreeable dreams, I rambled about the meads, scarcely knowing which way I was going; sometimes a spangled fly led me astray, and, oftener, my own strange fancies.–William Beckford in Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents.

Her soft light reposed upon the meads, that had been newly mown, and the shadows of tall poplars were cast aslant them.–William Beckford in Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents.

Here and there a white house, built in the antique style, with open porticos, that received a faint gleam of the evening sun, just emerged from the clouds and tinting the meads below.–William Beckford in Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents.

I felt myself without those I love most, in situations they would have warmly admired, and without them these pleasant meads and woodlands were of little avail.–William Beckford in Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents.

Then, moreover, must the meads have felt the worry of scarcely knowing yet what would be demanded of them; whether to carry an exacting load of hay, or only to feed a few sauntering cows.–R.D. Blackmore in Erema.

Young Herbert Brooks, in strength and manhood bold, Who, round the meads, his own possessions, stroll'd, O'erheard the charge, and with a heart so gay, Whistled his spaniel and pursu'd his way.–Robert Bloomfield in Wild Flowers (Or, Pastoral and Local Poetry).

First o'er the neighbouring meads majestick spread; Till gathering force, they more and more expand.–James Boswell in The Life of Samuel Johnson, vol 1.

Soon the last of those chalky ridges would vanish, and then would come the heathy tracts about Woking, and the fertile meads in the Thames valley.–Mary Elizabeth Braddon in The Golden Calf.

• Preface iv
• Use in Literature 1
• Meads 1
• Meads – "Green" 4
• Nonfiction Usage 5
• Qur'anic Usage 5
• Patent Usage 5
• Bibliographic Usage 5
• Encyclopedic Usage 12
• Lexicographic Usage 13
• Index 20