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Definition of Flouts
1. flout [v] - See also: flout
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flouts
Literary usage of Flouts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"PHILLIDA flouts ME OH WHAT a plague is love! I cannot bear it, ... Phillida flouts
me, I often heard her say That she loved posies: In the last month of May ..."
2. Old English Popular Music by William Chappell, Harry Ellis Wooldridge (1893)
"PHILLIDA flouts ME. Watt's Musical Miscellany, ii. ... Phillida flouts me, The
ballad of " Phillida flouts me " is in the Roxburghe Collection ii. ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"... flouts ME 0 WHAT a plague is love! How shall I bear it? She will inconstant
prove, I greatly fear it. She so torments my mind That my strength faileth, ..."
4. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day by George Saintsbury (1908)
"... general—Digression on " Phillida flouts me" and foot-division—" Pindaric "—Its
rise in Cowley and its nature—The inducements to it—Furor poeticus, etc. ..."
5. English Poetry in Three Volumes;: In Three Volumes ; with Introduction and Notes (1910)
"... flouts ME O WHAT a plague is love! How shall I bear it? She will inconstant
prove, I greatly fear it. She so torments my mind That my strength faileth, ..."
6. Ancient Songs and Ballads from the Reign of King Henry the Second to the by William Carew Hazlitt (1877)
"... John and Joan both, jointly, Doe set hands to the plough : Let all do soe, In
weale or woe, And they'l do well enough. 130 X. PHILLIDA flouts ME. ..."
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