Example Sentences

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Pules it in the candle light Wi' a cheek so lean and white, Chinkling up its eyne so wee, Wailing shrill at her an' me.

From Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems by De la Mare, Walter

In petticoat of green, Her hair about her eyne, Phillis, beneath an oak, Sat milking her fair flock.

From Tudor and Stuart Love Songs by Briscoe, John Potter

Compare Shakespeare: "Come, thou monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne."

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James

His stockings of red-apple rind were tyne With an eyelash plucked from his mother's eyne.

From English Fairy Tales by Rackham, Arthur

Of this termination we have evident remains in the words oxen, hosen, shoon, eyne, words more or less antiquated.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)