First recorded in 2005–10; shortened from versatile ( def. )
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The four protagonists in her debut novel, Conversations With Friends, are as hyperconscious of social norms as the vers libre poets were hyperconscious of meter.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2017
The best poems in the book are actually a pastiche of one of James Laughlin’s vers d’occasion and a little take-off on “In a Station of the Metro,” Ezra Pound’s imagist classic:
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2015
The elder poet was presented with a small stone casket full of poems written by the younger men, poems that struck him as “word problems”: incomprehensibly Modern, most of them in vers libre.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 24, 2015
The masses, however, unable to understand, let alone appreciate the mystic imagery and elusive passion of his vers libre phrasings remained oblivious to him.
From Gargoyles by Hecht, Ben
This the prophet continues to do in vers. 9-12.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
He became tributary to the Assyrian king Pul, vers. 19-21.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
Eus., lect., vers., with the commentary of Theophylact.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose
If, then, we view vers. 5-9 as a description of the Present, we obtain an irreconcilable contradiction.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
The thanksgivings for the promise are followed in vers. 25-29 by a prayer for its fulfilment, intermingled with expressions of hope.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
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