dints
- present tense form of dint (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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She took the shield from the corner, and handled the bruises and dints in it lovingly, and made pictures to herself of all the battles and tournaments it had been through with her knight.
From Stories of King Arthur's Knights Told to the Children by Mary MacGregor by Cameron, Katharine
It is thy fancy's finger-tip That dints the dimple now, and kinks the lip That scarce may sing in all this glad increase Of merriment!
From Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) by Nye, Bill
No accent wounds the reverent air,— No footprint dints the sod,— Low in the light the prairie lies Rapt in a dream of God.
From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
I am told that at Calais they made dints in the wall that a man might put his head into.
From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
The butcher's brave cerulean garb Flutters before his face, The cleaver dints his little roof Of furrowed wood; remote, aloof He sits superb and panic-proof In his accustomed place.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 18, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
