litten
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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When Launfal heard these words he rejoiced greatly, for his heart was litten by another's torch.
From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by France, Marie de
For her breathing in fragrance is written, And in music her path as she goes, And the cloud of her hair, it is litten With stars of the wind-woven rose.
From Medea of Euripedes by Euripedes
In gulfs depressed nor in the gulfs exalted Shall shade nor lightening of her flame be found; In space that litten orbits gird around, Nor in the bottomless abyss unvaulted Of unenvironed, all-outlying night.
From The Star-Treader and other poems by Smith, Clark Ashton
The women have become only black shapes upon the square litten patch which is the doorway surrounded by the blackness of the barn.
From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Bottomley, Gordon
Travers took the path leading to the wood, and entering in the coppice, saw the red blaze of a fire which these two thieves had litten.
From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene
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