tost
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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Always, with due comparison, By him let all that 's done be done; Troops, levies, and ambassadors, Treaties and taxes, wars and stores; No blunders or crude schemes are tost, Each enterprise repays its cost.
From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by John Gay
And he tost on the garment of satin His deep raven darkness of hair, And the song at my lips was ungathered, And I sate there to marvel and stare.
From The Triumph of Music And Other Lyrics by Madison Julius Cawein
Your needles, pins, your thread, And tapes all lost— Your housewife here, And there your work-bag tost.
From Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 by E. W. (Edward William) Cole
Ma dame l'enseveli Et Amours, par fi Que sa mort fust tost plouree.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
His ships were tempest tost and scattered, and half of his cavalry horses and several of his guns had to be thrown overboard.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving
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