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
Is it in the glade or the thicket, or on the margent of the rill?
From The Coming of Cuculain by O'Grady, Standish
Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy aery shell By slow Meander's margent green.
From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Bulfinch, Thomas
If on thy margent green, Or 'midst thy flowers, were seen Some traces of her footsteps lingering there.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas
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 Select Poems of Thomas Gray by Carruthers, Robert
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