chaliced
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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They can never, of course, get very far away from the regions skirted by eternal frost, for their cup of joy must be chaliced by the snow-flake, or their beautiful life is soon ended.
From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.
The perfume shed From invisible gardens is chaliced by kindly airs And carried for welcome to the stranger.
From Georgian Poetry 1918-19 by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir
Now the fields are laughing; now the maids Take their pastime; laugh the leafy glades: Now the summer days are blooming, And the flowers their chaliced lamps for love illuming.
From Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse by Symonds, John Addington
All Orient odors, spikenard, balm and myrrh, Perfumes of Araby and farthest Ind— Sweet incense from the chaliced heart of her She pours upon the feet of every wind.
From The Path of Dreams Poems by Giltner, Leigh Gordon
The frost of age Has touched the once-brown hair, And left it white as are the chaliced lilies.
From Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two by Various
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