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English citations of shew
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- 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
- Well, so I did; but yet I did not think To shew to all the world my pen and ink In such a mode; I only thought to make I knew not what; nor did I undertake Thereby to please my neighbour: no, not I; I did it my own self to gratify.
- And now before I do put up my pen, I'll shew the profit of my book, and then Commit both thee and it unto that Hand That pulls the strong down, and makes weak ones stand.
- When Christians unto carnal men give ear, Out of their way they go, and pay for 't dear; For Master Worldly Wiseman can but shew A saint the way to bondage and to woe.
- interjection in a vein with shoowee, whew, phew?
- 1859, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Illustrated Natural History of the Animal Kingdon: […] , page 13:
- Whew, shew, Wadolincon! listen to me, Bobolincon! — Happy's the wooing that's speedily doing, that's speedily doing, That's merry and over with the bloom of the clover!
- cf.:
- 1898, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The First Part of the Tragedy of Faust in English, page 211:
- Sighed when life was in its glory, All we loved and hoped conveying? And like some tradition hoary Echo is the tale re-saying! Whew-hoo! Shew-hoo! Now […]