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- adjective Having the form of a spear.
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- adjective Having the form of a
spear .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The speary hand burned aloft, unbuckled was the shield, forth went the hand of jealousy among the flaming hair, and hurl'd the new born wonder thro 'the starry night.
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Fleep, did u take notez uv deh speary mint dat booklion and
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The speary hand burned aloft, unbuckled was the shield, forth went the hand of jealousy among the flaming hair, and hurl'd the new born wonder thro 'the starry night.
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Why, when I come to you, I don't forever feel it rising up with a thousand speary heads that shut you out; it drowns in your presence; the surface is cool and clear, and I can look down, down, into the very heart of my sin, like that strange lake we looked into one day, -- do you remember it?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various
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But where the blue clay aboundeth (which hardly drinketh up the winter's water in long season) there the grass is speary, rough, and very apt for bushes: by which occasion it becometh nothing so profitable unto the owner as the other.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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Carpathians 2500 feet above sea level I found English walnut trees of small size (15 feet tall, 6 inches thick) with light gray bark, producing 2 inch long nuts of speary shape, like our Canadian butternuts but of English Walnut shells and kernels.
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Its showery, arrowy, speary sleet pierceth one thro and thro,
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But where the blue clay aboundeth (which hardly drinketh up the winters water in long season) there the grass is speary, rough, and very apt for bushes: by which occasion it becometh nothing so profitable unto the owner as the other.
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The cupolas of the many mosques and the tall and speary minarets gave their Eastern message -- that message which, even to
In the Wilderness Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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Already Rosamund and Dion had spent many hours here, sometimes sitting on the bench, more often resting on the warm ground in the sunshine, among the fragments of ruin and the speary, silver-green grasses.
In the Wilderness Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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