litten
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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There on the green grass were tables arrayed, and lamps were hung above them on spears, to be litten when the daylight should fail.
From The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale by Morris, William
The women have become only black shapes upon the square litten patch which is the doorway surrounded by the blackness of the barn.
From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Bottomley, Gordon
For her breathing in fragrance is written, And in music her path as she goes, And the cloud of her hair, it is litten With stars of the wind-woven rose.
From Medea of Euripedes by Euripedes
And therewith he swung merrily into the litten hall.
From Wood Beyond the World by Morris, William
Travers took the path leading to the wood, and entering in the coppice, saw the red blaze of a fire which these two thieves had litten.
From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene
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