margent
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of margent
First recorded in 1475–85; alteration of margin
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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 Standish O'Grady
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 Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
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 Thomas Bulfinch
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 Robert Carruthers
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