Read full poem →Also his lips, two writhen flakes of flame,
Made moan: 'Alas O Love, thus leashed with me!
Dictionary Entry
Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
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Common Phrases
. flakesflakes cornflakes pepperflakes largeflakes whiteflakes small
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Poetry examples for “flakes”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →hindrance,
With the willow flakes falling like snow,
And the vermilioned girls getting drunk about sunset,
Read full poem →Deprived of my kinsmen;
Hung with hard ice-flakes, where hail-scur flew,
There I heard naught save the harsh sea
Read full poem →Blow, winds! and waft through all the rooms
The snow-flakes of the cherry-blooms!
Blow, winds! and bend within my reach
Read full poem →And in the orchards every twining spray
Was breaking into flakes of blossoming foam:
But when I knew that far away at Rome
Read full poem →Come, East and West and North,
By races, as snow-flakes,
And carry my purpose forth,
Read full poem →Than noontide twilights which snow makes
With tempest of the blinding flakes.
For well the soul, if stout within,
Read full poem →O'er its white edge at me, his own master, askance!
And the thick heavy spume-flakes which aye and anon
His fierce lips shook upwards in galloping on.
Read full poem →Where cedar pales in scented row 30
Kept out the flakes of the dancing brine,
And an awning drooped the mast below,