imbrown
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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Embrown, em-brown′, Imbrown, im-, v.t. to make brown: to darken, obscure.—p.adj.
From Project Gutenberg
Leander From Alleghany in thick groves imbrown'd, Sweet music breathing thro' the shades of night Steals on my ear, they sing the origin Of those fair lights which gild the firmament; From whence the gale that murmurs in the pines; Why flows the stream down from the mountains brow And rolls the ocean lower than the land.
From Project Gutenberg
Imbrown'd with dust a beaten pathway shows Where 'midst umbrageous palms the fountain flows; From thence, at will, they bear the liquid health; And now, sole masters of the island's wealth, With costly spoils and eastern robes adorn'd, The joyful victors to the fleet return'd.
From Project Gutenberg
The am'rous dolphins to their deepest caves In vain retreat, to fly the furious waves; High o'er the mountain-capes the ocean flows, And tears the aged forests from their brows: The pine and oak's huge, sinewy roots uptorn, And, from their beds the dusky sands upborne On the rude whirlings of the billowy sweep, Imbrown the surface of the boiling deep.
From Project Gutenberg
Pope has described this extraordinary character with singular felicity of expression: But, where each science lifts its modern type, Hist'ry her Pot, Divinity her Pipe, While proud philosophy repines to shew, Dishonest sight! his breeches rent below; Imbrown'd with native bronze, lo!
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