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Definition of Icicles

1. icicle [n] - See also: icicle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Icicles

Literary usage of Icicles

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Golden Numbers: A Book of Verse for Youth by Nora Archibald Smith (1902)
"When icicles Hang by the Wall When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen ..."

2. Poetry of the Seasons by Mary Isabella Lovejoy (1898)
"WHEN icicles HANG BY THE WALL. HEN icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, JP.. And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes ..."

3. English Poems by Harry Gilbert Paul (1908)
"WHEN icicles HANG BY THE WALL [From Love's Labour's Losi\ WHEN icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the ..."

4. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"icicles AT THE SOUTH All selections, except otherwise noted, are from ' Sylvan Lyrics.' Copyright, 1893, by Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York. ..."

5. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1897)
"Up and still up we rode, our poor mules plunging through the snow, our fingers mechanically holding the reins, which felt like icicles within our grasp, ..."

6. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as ..."

7. Little Masterpieces of English Poetry edited by Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig (1905)
"WHEN-icicles HANG BY THE WALL From LLL WHEN icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes ..."

8. Junior High School Literature by William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck (1919)
"Phrases benefits forgot, 84, 13 friendship is feigning, 84, 18 WHEN icicles HANG BY THE WALL WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When icicles hang by the wall, ..."

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