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Definition of Eyestrings
1. [n]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eyestrings
Literary usage of Eyestrings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... like a pilgrim's dusky gown, Waves with the waving tree.' vn Count Harold
gazed upon the oak n» As if his eyestrings would have broke, ..."
2. Men, Women & Manners in Colonial Times by Sydney George Fisher (1898)
"... and if he declined might threaten " to try the strength of his eyestrings."
Elkanah Watson had on several occasions in his travels sharp experience with ..."
3. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day by George Saintsbury (1908)
"Every word, every syllable in this really great poem has its place and meaning:
a fact of which the respectable persons who change " eyestrings break" into ..."
4. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1867)
"... besides "eyelids close" instead of " eyestrings break," (a needless variation
which is found in almost every hymn-book,) the fine couplet, ..."
5. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Hezekiah Butterworth, Theron Brown (1906)
"... as all intrinsically superior things can and will,—and as in the twentieth
line,— When my eyestrings break in death; —modernized When my eyelids close ..."
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