mongst
Americanpreposition
preposition
Etymology
Origin of mongst
Aphetic variant of amongst
Example Sentences
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Hath triple Cerberus, with contagious foam, Sowed Aconitum mongst these withered herbs?
From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
As for Mr. Hinton, one and all we welcome him amid our mongst.
From Mr. Opp by Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan
My fortune was, mongst manie others moe, To be partaker of their common woe; And my weake bodie, set on fire with griefe, 15 Was rob'd of rest and naturall reliefe.
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund
But mongst them all which did Loves honor rayse, No word was heard of her that most it ought; But she his precept proudly disobayes, And doth his ydle message set at nought.
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund
I know two men, that seem two innocents, Whose lookes, surveied with iuditiall eyes, Would seeme to beare the markes of honestie; But snakes finde harbour mongst the fairest flowers, Then never credit outward semblaunces.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)
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