Lexicographical Neighbors of Asway
Literary usage of Asway
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ah, what Riddles These Women Be!by William Young by William Young (1900)
"—Cataract-like was the downward fling And crash of the surge; but the woman lay,
Silent ever, with limbs asway; And never the eyes of Leif from mine ..."
2. A Study of Poetry by Bliss Perry (1920)
"What, for instance, can be made by the formerly accepted systems of prosody of
such hexameters as 'Full-sailed, wide-winged, poised softly forever asway? ..."
3. Poems of the Dance by Edward Robert Dickson (1921)
"... Sorcerer fires, one - two, one - two, Calling with tongues my name, my name;
Ardors of the old that thrill me through, Call of the boughs asway, ..."
4. Le Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory, Heinrich Oskar Sommer, Andrew Lang (1891)
"Like Guinevere— " We gaze upon the arras giddily, Where the wind set the silken
kings asway. ..."
5. The Principles of English Versification by Paull Franklin Baum (1922)
"... hexameter — Full-sailed, wide-winged, poised softly forever asway. where the
whole music of the line depends upon giving due time-emphasis to " poised. ..."
6. Modern Russian Poetry: An Anthology by Babette Deutsch, Avrahm Yarmolinsky (1921)
"By the gnarled silver of an olive flinging My drowsy limbs, in its dry shade I
lay,— He came—like a hot cobweb net, asway, Or like a cloud of flies about me ..."
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