Example Sentences

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Give me swift transportance to those fields, Where I may wallow in the Lily beds Proposed for the deserver.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson

If affection lead a man to favor the less worthy in desert, let him do it, without depraving or disabling the better deserver.

From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Bacon, Francis

O, be thou my Charon, And give me swift transportance to these fields Where I may wallow in the lily beds Propos'd for the deserver!

From Troilus and Cressida by Shakespeare, William

And this, "The sublime heavens, which with your divinity divinely fortify you with the stars, and fix you the deserver of the desert that is deserved by your grandeur."

From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

This popularity did not cause any alteration in the melancholy orientalism of its deserver.

From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Blunden, Edmund