Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A past participle of strow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- p. p. of
strow .
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- verb Past participle of
strow
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Examples
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In vain with lavish kindness the gifts of God are strown;
Michael Ruse: Is My Religion Better than Your Religion? Michael Ruse 2010
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In vain with lavish kindness the gifts of God are strown;
Michael Ruse: Is My Religion Better than Your Religion? Michael Ruse 2010
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And our eyelids had strown for thy feet to betread.
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Had we wist of thy coming, thy way had been strown, i.
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The servants hastened to admit him and walked before him till they had brought him to their master, whom he found strown upon his bed.
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Ali bin Bakkar, from the moment Shams al-Nahar left him, he lay strown on the ground for stress of love and desire; and, when he revived, he fell to gazing upon these things that had not their like and saying to Abu al-Hasan, O my brother, I fear lest the Caliph see us or come to know of our case; but the most of my fear is for thee.
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I will vex the broad Aegean sea; and the beach of Myconus and the reefs round Delos, Scyros and Lemnos too, and the cliffs of Caphareus shall be strown with many a corpse.
The Trojan Women 2008
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So the Caliph dismounted and entering, with his courtiers, saw a high-builded saloon, spacious and boon, with couches on daïs and carpets and divans strown in place.
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I will vex the broad Aegean sea; and the beach of Myconus and the reefs round Delos, Scyros and Lemnos too, and the cliffs of Caphareus shall be strown with many a corpse.
The Trojan Women 2008
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Quoth Ali bin Bakkar, It was bruited abroad that I was ill and my comrades heard the report; and I have no strength to rise and walk so as to give him the lie who noised abroad my sickness, but continue lying strown here as thou seest.
oroboros commented on the word strown
See citation under truth.
September 14, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word strown
Not a flower, not a flower sweet,
On my black coffin let there be strown.
-Shakespeare, Twelfth Night II. iv.
August 29, 2014