Read full poem →No, she ain’t dead, she can’t be, they’re alive!
She wouldn’t leave ’em. No, she can’t be dead.
Wife, do ’e hear? The children be alive.
Dictionary Entry
The name of the Latin-script letter M.
In a Sentence
“The ems and ens at the beginnings and ends.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. emem aunt
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Poetry examples for “em”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Aye, that ’e could--for it’s been ’ard enough--with they two there. Ah,
you may look at ’em, they ’aven’t known trouble--yet they was with me
all the time. Why, there’ve been days when I’ve not ’ad enough to eat
Read full poem →Grave, as when prisoners shake the head and swear
'Twas only suretiship that brought 'em there.
His office keeps your parchment fates entire,
Read full poem →If to her share some female errors fall,
Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Read full poem →And every speech with 'zounds!' end;
To hear 'em rail at honest Sunderland,
And rashly blame the realm of Blunderland.[75]
Read full poem →Long FV EM WS coioceo ox 2d 30 AOE POM OR NEN SAADEH RESTS LIOR AGH SON ZENE EES “Long Distance”
Read full poem →...Drake-1323-J
Gaylord EM r 2419 B 14....c.cceeees Red-4905
Read full poem →In the fifth--I forget, but four good reasons are ample.
Meantime, pray let 'em fight, and be killed. I delight in devotion.
So that I 'list not, hurrah for the glorious army of martyrs!
Read full poem →in all the young wenches that pass by, at the lack
door, and coddling every kernel of the fruit for ’em
would ha.' served. But pr'ythee, come over to me,
Read full poem →Greek, or the Latin. He is for no gallant’s company
without ’em. And bv Gad’s lid I scorn it, I, so I
do, to be a consort for every hum-drum, hang-em