thymy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of thymy
Example Sentences
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Life of the woods, life of the rivers, life of the trees, Life of the rich plain-grasses that seed to the morning breeze, And the thymy mountain-grasses June makes loud with bees.
From Poems of London and Other Verses by John Presland
To do this we must visit them in their own home, which we shall find in some pine-wood, like the "pincushion-wood," or in some grassy thymy spot, covered with little green tufts.
From Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation by Caroline Pridham
By thymy slopes, foot-deep in sward they roved, Both lightly garrulous, and she, sweet child, Fusing her whole attention into joy, Until they stood before the lake, that gleamed With water-lilies, sun, and moving cloud.
From My Beautiful Lady. Nelly Dale by Henry Morley
Swept clean of smuts and chimney-stacks Each roof becomes a blooming garden, And there, reclining on its backs, All day the jocund public slacks As in the thymy glades of Arden.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 28, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
Other dogs in thymy dew Track'd the hares, and follow'd through Sunny moor or meadow; This dog only crept and crept Next a languid cheek that slept, Sharing in the shadow.
From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by Adam White
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