thymy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of thymy
Example Sentences
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I watched them disappear in a sort of moving frieze between the thymy turf and the hot, blue sky.
From Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune by Onions, Mrs. Oliver
And yet, O Sweet, you never knew Those downs, the thymy air That with your spirit haunted is— Yes, everywhere!
From Poems New and Old by Freeman, John
IX Other dogs in thymy dew Tracked the hares, and followed through Sunny moor or meadow: This dog only crept and crept Next a languid cheek that slept, Sharing in the shadow.
From The Dog's Book of Verse by Various
Unbanished gods roam o'er the thymy hills, Calm shadows slumber on the purple grapes, Hid are the dryads near the star-gemmed rills, Far through the moonlight wander love-lorn shapes.
From Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 by Thompson, Slason
No man of forty-five masquerade as a quarter of a century younger in this broomy, thymy air?
From The Tower of Oblivion by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
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