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The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
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Poetry examples for “four”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →May will be fine next year as like as not:
Oh ay, but then we shall be twenty-four.
Read full poem →Guard the bed that I lie on;
Four corners to my bed,
Four angels at my head,
Read full poem →And carrion cheap,
And daylight dear at four-and-twenty:
Lie down again and sleep."
Read full poem →Sprinkle the quarters on the morning town.
One, two, three, four, to market-place and people
It tossed them down.
Read full poem →And so the weed of sorrow
Springs at the four cross ways.
Read full poem →But just endured the winter she began,
And in four months a batter'd harridan.
Now nothing left, but wither'd, pale, and shrunk,
Read full poem →Behold, four Kings in majesty revered,
With hoary whiskers and a forky beard;
Read full poem →MORAL ESSAYS,
IN FOUR EPISTLES TO SEVERAL PERSONS.
Read full poem →many of the Fair Sex have read it for one by mistake. According to these
Gentlemen, the four Elements are inhabited by Spirits, which they call
Sylphs, Gnomes, Nymphs, and Salamanders. The Gnomes or Dæmons of Earth