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English citations of weeds
| 1600 | 1749 | 1843 1886 | |||||
| ME « | 15th c. | 16th c. | 17th c. | 18th c. | 19th c. | 20th c. | 21st c. |
- 1600, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, v 3
- Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds;
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book i:
- Nor can the judicious reader be at a greater loss on account of Mrs Bridget Blifil, who, he may be assured, conducted herself through the whole season in which grief is to make its appearance on the outside of the body, with the strictest regard to all the rules of custom and decency, suiting the alterations of her countenance to the several alterations of her habit: for as this changed from weeds to black, from black to grey, from grey to white, so did her countenance change from dismal to sorrowful, from sorrowful to sad, and from sad to serious, till the day came in which she was allowed to return to her former serenity.
- 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
- A churchyard. Here, then; the wretched man whose name he had now to learn, lay underneath the ground. It was a worthy place. Walled in by houses; overrun by grass and weeds, the growth of vegetation's death, not life; choked up with too much burying; fat with repleted appetite. A worthy place!
- 1886, Aeschylus, Choephori, translated by Anna Swanwick, lines 10–12
- What sight is this? What company of women
Is wending hitherward, in sable weeds
Conspicuous?
- What sight is this? What company of women