margent
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of margent
First recorded in 1475–85; alteration of margin
Example Sentences
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Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace, Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave?
From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2013
He sighed, and as they walked by the violet margent of the evening waves, he offered up in silence an earnest prayer that Daubeny might live.
From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by H. C. (Harold C.) Earnshaw
“Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race, Disporting on thy margent green, The paths of pleasure trace.”
From The Armourer's Prentices by W.J. Hennessy
Titania also tells how the fairy race meet “on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain, or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea.”
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
That target, discuss'd by the travellers of old, Which to one appear'd argent, to one appear'd gold, To him, ever lingering on Doubt's dizzy margent, Appear'd in one moment both golden and argent.
From Lucile by Owen Meredith
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