Read full poem →But for his funeral train which the bridegroom sees in the distance,
Would he so joyfully, think you, fall in with the marriage procession?
But for that final discharge, would he dare to enlist in that service?
Dictionary Entry
To collapse inwards.
In a Sentence
“The heavy rain caused the roof to fall in.”
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Poetry examples for “fall in”
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Read full poem →Where all good wits and spirits love to be.
Fall in between their hands that praise and love thee,[456]
And be to them a laughter and a jest:
Read full poem →She was so gentle and so good,
That duty bade me fall in love,
And ‘but for that,’ thought I, ‘I should!’
Read full poem →What weathercocks men always prove!
You're quite right not to fall in love.
_I_ never did, and, truth to tell,
Read full poem →Minneha’ha, Laughing Water; wife of Hiawatha;
a water-fall in a stream running into the
Mississippi between Fort Snelling and the
Read full poem →If this fall in a time, or land,
Where mass-devotion doth command,
Read full poem →For sure so well instructed are my tears,
They would fitly fall in order'd Characters.
Read full poem →For sure so well instructed are my tears,
They would fitly fall in order'd Characters.
Read full poem →Where, in far fields, the orchis grew.
Many haps fall in the field
Seldom seen by wishful eyes,
Read full poem →them, he perishes alone in the Desart; unless he should have the good
fortune to fall in with some other Tribes of Indians. It is unnecessary
to add that the females are equally, or still more, exposed to the same