garnered
Americanadjective
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gathered, deposited, or stored in or as if in a granary or other storage place.
L. E. Landon once observed, "We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, and the tender feelings it can summon."
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acquired or earned.
With a recently garnered award, this popular fragrance has become the year’s best-selling cologne.
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Perhaps e'er long Their simple song Will be of Garnered Monkeys!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 24, 1892 by Various
Hearts of steel and of fire, Why do ye love and aspire, When follows Death—all your passionate deeds, Garnered with rust and with weeds In the hollows?
From Lundy's Lane and Other Poems by Scott, Duncan Campbell
Sun that is ruddy and fragrant with flowers, Garnered and hid from these desolate hours, Misty with beauty, the silver of spring— Ah, for the ways that are lost to my feet!
From Sonnets and Songs by Whitney, Helen Hay
Glad we have been when our neighbor Garnered the golden grain, Knowing our mortgage was unpaid, And all of our efforts seemed vain.
From In the Land of Dakota A Little Book of Dakota Verse by Winstead, Huldah Lucile
And not enough the guerdons of success Garnered in homes of affluent selfishness!
From The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Van Dyke, Henry
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