Read full poem →Pierce the soft labyrinth of a lady's ear
With rhymes of this per cent, and that per year?
Or court a wife, spread out his wily parts,
Dictionary Entry
(money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
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Poetry examples for “cent”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →To a Dark Gil. dene £9) ot tee ee ee ee LONG
NOUS ONCE CENT Ee MEISE th a eee E AA LO’,
Fantasy . . Ce came pana Wate)
Read full poem →a wink bum-nothing and money fuzzily mouths take big wobbly foot-steps
every goggle cent of it get out ears dribbles soft right old feller
belch the chap hic sum- more eh chuckles skulch. . . .
Read full poem →Time was when his half million drew
The breath of six per cent;
But soon the worm of what-was-not
Read full poem →The best ores, therefore, contain a little more than 40 per cent, of
pnre iron; practically they yield 30 or 33 — sometimes, however,
Read full poem →"En 1519, Bonnivard devient le martyr de sa patrie: Le Duc de Savoye
étant entré dans Genève avec cinq cent hommes, Bonnivard craint le
ressentiment du Duc; il voulut se retirer à Fribourg pour en éviter les
Read full poem →plantation?. ' At SiftJfi a branch of sw tdja*
cent rivulet may be coi)du£led through ^yciy
boufe and garden I wpikjthe feycrajl f^doke
Read full poem →church.’ He states also that in Kent, one quarter of one
per cent. of the population bears the name Larkin. Green-
wood’s “County Kent History” states that Larkin Hall is
Read full poem →I ne’er could lend on bill or band,
That five per cent. might blest me;
And borrowing, on the tither hand,
Read full poem →I ne’er could lend on bill or band,
That five per cent. might blest me;
And borrowing, on the tither hand,
