miscreate
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Black-swarming, in medley miscreate, In masses lumped hideously, Wallowed the conger, the thorny skate, The lobster's grisly deformity; And, baring its teeth with cruel sheen, a Terrible shark, the sea's hyena.
From Rampolli by George MacDonald
To him the lights of even and morn Speak no vain things of love or scorn, Fancies and passions miscreate By man in things dispassionate.
From Songs Before Sunrise by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Black swarming in medley miscreate, In masses lumped hideously, Wallowed the conger, the thorny skate, The lobster's grisly deformity; And bared its teeth with cruel sheen a Terrible shark, the sea's hyena.
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald
Whence and what art thou, execrable Shape, That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance Thy miscreated front athwart my way To yonder gates?
From Paradise Lost by John Milton
This monstrous nomenclature, this jargon of miscreated things in chaos, rose as by nature to his lips, flowed from them as by instinct.
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne
All this is very amiable in him, and the more so, perhaps, as these objects of his affection are the young ones of a race in his opinion miscreated by an evil-working chance.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll
I must likewise take notice, that there are in Milton several Words of his own coining, as Cerberean, miscreated, Hell-doom'd, Embryon Atoms, and many others.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Joseph Addison
That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance Thy miscreated front athwart my way To yonder gates?
From The Canadian Elocutionist by Anna Kelsey Howard
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