miscreate
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Black swarming in medley miscreate, In masses lumped hideously, Wallowed the conger, the thorny skate, The lobster's grisly deformity; And bared its teeth with cruel sheen a Terrible shark, the sea's hyena.
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald
To him the lights of even and morn Speak no vain things of love or scorn, Fancies and passions miscreate By man in things dispassionate.
From Songs Before Sunrise by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Black-swarming, in medley miscreate, In masses lumped hideously, Wallowed the conger, the thorny skate, The lobster's grisly deformity; And, baring its teeth with cruel sheen, a Terrible shark, the sea's hyena.
From Rampolli by George MacDonald
How many times in my life have I been foiled and baffled by those miscreated men-machines in scarlet blanketing!
From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by George Augustus Sala
This monstrous nomenclature, this jargon of miscreated things in chaos, rose as by nature to his lips, flowed from them as by instinct.
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne
You miscreated scarecrow, dare you shake, Or strike in jest, a natural man like me?—
From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini by Montrose Jonas Moses
Whence and what art thou, execrable Shape, That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance Thy miscreated front athwart my way To yonder gates?
From Paradise Lost by John Milton
That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance Thy miscreated front athwart my way To yonder gates?
From The Canadian Elocutionist by Anna Kelsey Howard
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