levin
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of levin
1200–50; Middle English levene, obscurely akin to Gothic lauhmuni (akin to Latin lūmen light)
Example Sentences
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Say to your sons,—Lo, here his grave, Who victor died on Gadite wave; To him, as to the burning levin, Short, bright, resistless course was given.
From Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys by Various
Were they only in those hands of power that flung their levin from the Palatine?
From Vergilius A Tale of the Coming of Christ by Bacheller, Irving
The clouds grew dark, and the wind grew loud, 70 And the levin fill'd her ee; And waesome wail'd the snaw-white sprites Upon the gurlie sea.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
O'er the Ocean's sounding deep Now they flash like fiery levin; Now at one vast bound they leap Up from earth into the Heaven.
From A Celtic Psaltery by Graves, Alfred Perceval
"Alas! fair sir," cried the blind old man, "I have not seen the blessed blue of heaven this two-score years, since a levin flash burned the sight out of my head."
From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
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