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Definition of Beamlike
1. resembling a beam [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beamlike
Literary usage of Beamlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Selections from Wordsworth by Curtis Hidden Page (1904)
"... whose intent, Although they did ill, was innocent. moths that kUs The swft-t
lips of the flowers, and harm But the liée and the beamlike ..."
2. Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne by Paul Hamilton Hayne (1882)
"... o'er us in the grass, And the lark, glancing beamlike up the cloud, To edge
our cares, whilst we, the proud and wise. Envy the insect's joy, ..."
3. English Cathedrals: Canterbury, Peterborough, Durham, Salisbury, Lichfield by Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Joseph Pennell (1892)
"Each is formed by a strong low arch surmounted by a straight beamlike piece of
wall.1 The four great openings are thus divided, so to say, into two open ..."
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