Citations:agrin

English citations of agrin

Adjective: "grinning or appearing pleased"

					1847 1849
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• 1847 — Alfred Tennyson, The Princess:

  Yea, let her see me fall! and with that I drave

  Among the thickest and bore down a Prince,

  And Cyril, one. Yea, let me make my dream

  All that I would. But that large-moulded man,

  His visage all agrin as at a wake,

  Made at me through the press, and, staggering back

  With stroke on stroke the horse and horseman, came

  As comes a pillar of electric cloud,

  Flaying the roofs and sucking up the drains,

  And shadowing down the champaign till it strikes

• 1849 — Charlotte Brontë, Shirley, Chapter III:

  When a ray from a lantern (the three pedestrians of the party carried each one) fell on Mr. Moore's face, you could see an unusual, because a lively, spark dancing in his eyes, and a new-found vivacity mantling on his dark physiognomy; and when the rector's visage was illuminated, his hard features were revealed all agrin and ashine with glee.