Citations:evacuate

English citations of evacuate

• a. 1722, Matthew Prior, “Human Life”, in H. Bunker Wright, Monroe K. Spears, editors, The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, Second edition, volume I, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1971, page 687:

  What trifling coil do we mortals keep;
  Wake, eat, and drink, evacuate, and sleep.