Citations:dire
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English citations of dire
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- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 1, ch. 3, Manchester Insurrection
- the world […] has had no time to think of dividing the wages; and has merely left them to be scrambled for by the Law of the Stronger, law of Supply-and-demand, law of Laissez-faire, and other idle Laws and Un-laws, saying, in its dire haste to get the work done, That is well enough!
- 1880 Dante Gabriel Rosetti, For The Holy Family, By Michelangelo, lines 3-5
- Infinite
- The sorrows that thy manhood's lot must rue
- And dire acquaintance of thy grief.
- 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, line 9858:
- Dire was the tossing, deep the groans.
- 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, line 1464:
- Gorgons and hydras and chimeras dire.