Read full poem →expressly distinguished by Statius from the fear, and means no more than
that since Polynices was an exile from Thebes, he was compelled to
proceed onwards till he could find an asylum in another state.]
Dictionary Entry
The state of being banished from one's home or country.
In a Sentence
“He lived in exile.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. exile
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Poetry examples for “exile”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Of love, and sigh for heaven not yet begun.
For saints in life-long exile yearn to touch
Warm human hands, and commune face to face;
Read full poem →Edw, Ay, priest, and lives to be revenged on thee,
That wert the only cause of his exile.
Read full poem →Not Hylas was more mourned of Hercules,
Than thou hast been of me since thy exile.
Read full poem →Tell me, dear plant of my childhood,
Do you of the exile dream?
Read full poem →Grown weary with a week’s exile
From those fair friends, I rode to see
Read full poem →And solemn, gathering tear,
And look of exile from some great repose, the sphere
Of ether, moved by ether only, or
Read full poem →And (to approve I speak within my scope)
The Mistress of that dateless exile gray
Is named in surpliced Schools Tristitia.
Read full poem →More harden'd the more plagued with fly and frog!
How should sad Exile sing in such a Land?
How should ye understand?
Read full poem →* Such was the last sentence passed by Florence against Dante,
as a recalcitrant exile.