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Definition of Linnets
1. linnet [n] - See also: linnet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Linnets
Literary usage of Linnets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"As bringing home the other day Two linnets I had ta'en, The pretty warblers seem'd
to pray For liberty again. Unheedful of their plaintive notes I sprung ..."
2. Such Nonsense!: An Anthology by Carolyn Wells (1918)
"For linnets will follow, if linnets are minded, As blows the white ... And we
blow the thistle-down hither and thither Forgetful of linnets and men and God. ..."
3. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1875)
"... That's why he makes such soft discourse, To please his lady Linnet, Who sits
in patience day and night, Till five young linnets see the light. ..."
4. The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1912 by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1912)
"William Makepeace Thackeray [1811-1863] POETS AND linnets AFTER ROBERT BROWNING
WHERE'ER there's a thistle to feed a linnet And linnets are plenty, ..."
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