atwain
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of atwain
Example Sentences
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Such smiling rogues as these, Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain.
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Then sang Ulenspiegel: “When my darling’s tears I see My heart is torn atwain, ’Tis honey when she laughs for me, When she weeps, a pearl.
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Thy father hath given the cloak to me, wherefore then hast thou cut it atwain?
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Wake ye, and hurry now, O men! get to the thwarts with speed, And bustle to unfurl the sails! here sent from heaven again A God hath spurred us on to flight, and biddeth hew atwain The hempen twine.
From Project Gutenberg
Then smitten by a sudden fear Æneas caught his blade,290 And turned the naked point and edge against their drawing nigh; And but for her wise word that these were thin lives flitting by All bodiless, and wrapped about in hollow shape and vain, With idle sword had he set on to cleave the ghosts atwain.
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