Read full poem →A choice of friends one knows,
And I shall ne'er be lonely
Asleep with these or those.
Dictionary Entry
To utter the word "er" when hesitating in speech, found in the phrase um and er.
In a Sentence
“He ummed and erred his way through the presentation.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. ersich erist erdie eral erer wenner dasser det
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Poetry examples for “er”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →A single season, never two;
Or if one haulm whose year is o'er
Shivers on the upland frore,
Read full poem →And the bridegroom seeks the bride:
Friend and comrade yield you o'er
To her that hardly loves you more.
Read full poem →Charge to fall and swim to drown.
Duty, friendship, bravery o'er,
Sleep away, lad; wake no more.
Read full poem →(As ----- and H---y preach) for queens and kings,
The nymph that ne'er read Milton's mighty line,
May, if she love, and merit verse, have mine
Read full poem →That secret rare with affluence hardly join'd,
Which W----n lost, yet B----y ne'er could find;
Still miss'd by vice, and scarce by virtue hit,
Read full poem →For thee, ah! what for thee did I resign?
My passions, pleasures, all that e'er was mine:
I've sacrificed both modesty and ease;
Read full poem →Sacred to social life and social love,
Shall glitter o'er the pendant green,
Where Thames reflects the visionary scene:
Read full poem →1 Fluttering, spread thy purple pinions,
Gentle Cupid, o'er my heart,
I a slave in thy dominions;
Read full poem →'Twas He had summon'd to her silent bed
The morning-dream that hover'd o'er her head;
A Youth more glitt'ring than a Birth-night Beau,