Dictionary Entry

deeds

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/diːdz/Used In Literature ↓

An action or act; something that is done.

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Common Phrases

. deedsdeeds gooddeeds evildeeds greatdeeds heroic

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Poetry examples for “deeds”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Let them mind their own affairs.
Their deeds I judge and much condemn,
Yet when did I make laws for them?

Past services of friends, good deeds of foes,
What favourites gain, and what the nation owes,

But let them write for you, each rogue impairs
The deeds, and dext'rously omits, _ses heires_:
No commentator can more slily pass

“ Ghildren die; and let me tell you, girl, - é
Howe’er you babble, great deeds cannot die.”’—III. 236-7,

"'For, Lord, thou knowest, O God most wise,
How gracious on earth were his deeds towards me.
Shall this be a small thing in thine eyes,

"Not the light that was quenched for us, nor the deeds that were,
Nor the ancient days,

In the mid moving tide of tenderer stars,
That burned on loves and deeds the darkest done,
Athwart the incestuous prisoner's bride-house bars;

Where shame, faith, honour, and regard of right,
Lay trampled on? The deeds of death and night
Urg'd, hurried forth, and hurl'd

THE ports of death are sins; of life, good deeds:
Through which our merit leads us to our meeds.

That love black deeds learn to dissemble here!
Here, by this paper, she doth write to me.