Read full poem →Flings them far down, and sets thine eyes above;
And simply, as some gage of flower or glove,
Stakes with a smile the world against thy heart.
Dictionary Entry
Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “gage”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →How should I reach so far, who cannot weigh
To-morrow's dower by gage of yesterday?
Shall birth and death, and all dark names that be
Read full poem →F—Farragut, Field, Fish, Florence, Foote, Franklin,
Fremont, Fry, Fuller. G—Gage, Geary, Gibbon,
Gilmore, Gordon, Gregg, Gresham, Griffin, Grover,
Read full poem →The courtier needs must recompensed be
With a benevolence, or have in gage
The primitias of your parsonage:
Read full poem →Or else alternated;
Adding by their mutual gage,
One to other, health and age.
Read full poem →Poor Tammy Gage within a cage
Was kept at Boston-ha’, man;