Read full poem →Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood.
Yet as a rebel fronts a king in state,
I stand within her walls with not a shred
Dictionary Entry
The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. frontsfronts twofronts manyfronts severalfronts wavefronts threefronts cold
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Synonyms
Poetry examples for “fronts”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →party who had just returned from France and the fight-
ing fronts and were to return to America in a few days,
the Viscount having planned thus pleasantly to bring
Read full poem →High polish'd fronts^ long tressed all miboqnd,
(A golden net which Love insidious weaires)
Read full poem →This scrap of valour just for play
Fronts the north-wind in waistcoat gray,
As if to shame my weak behaviour;
Read full poem →Fold on fold all at once it crowds thunderously down to his feet,
And there fronts you, stark, black, but alive yet, your 110
mountain of old,
Read full poem →at college fizzled to nothing outside the slick marble and plate-glass
fronts along Madison Avenue.
Read full poem →"Girt with many a baron bold
Sublime their starry fronts they rear;
And gorgeous dames, and statesmen old
Read full poem →“Then frame,” she cried, “wide fronts of crystal glass,
That I may show my laughter and my light—
Read full poem →“Down the stony steps of the house-fronts white
We rolled rich puncheons of Spanish grape,