Example Sentences

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Vain the hopes my heart is gleaning, If, long since to thee, My fond heart required unscreening, Vain my words will be!

From Poems by MacCarthy, Denis Florence

"Spring" he calls "grass"; "summer" is "gleaning"; "autumn" is "fruit"; "winter" is "rainy."

From In the Tail of the Peacock by Savory, Isabel

The bruisers King and Mace fought yesterday, and the plodding person close by from Bell's Life is gleaning their antecedents.

From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by Townsend, George Alfred