Example Sentences

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He that doth paint the beauties of your verse, Must use your pensil, be polite, soft, terse; Forgive that man whose best of art is love, If he no equall master to you prove.

From The Lucasta Poems by Lovelace, Richard

A thousand streamers flaunted fair,        Various in shape, device and hue,        Green, sanguine, purple, red, and blue,      Broad, narrow, swallow-tailed, and square,      Scroll, pennon, pensil, bandrol, there        O'er the pavilions flew.

From The Prose Marmion A Tale of the Scottish Border by Jenkins, Sara D.