Read full poem →Yet, if her often gnawing kisses winne
The traiterous banke to gape, and let her in,
She rusheth violently, and doth divorce
Dictionary Entry
An act of gaping; a yawn.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. gapeopen gapegape onlygape wide
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Poetry examples for “gape”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →As once it shall,
Should gape immense, and, rushing down, o'erwhelm this nether ball;
So swift and so surprising was our fear:
Read full poem →And frantic gape of lonely Niobe,
Read full poem →That vile, wanchancie thing--a rape!
It maks guid fellows girn an' gape,
Wi' chokin dread;
Read full poem →A fluctuant mutable world and dim,
Where wavering masses bulge and gape
Mysterious, and shape to shape
Read full poem →A fluctuant mutable world and dim,
Where wavering masses bulge and gape
Mysterious, and shape to shape
Read full poem →Sprawling desires, shapeless, perverse, denied.
Finger with finger wreathes; we love, and gape,
Fantastic shape to mazed fantastic shape,
Read full poem →Poor beggars!) Still, it seemed so rude and rotten
To stand and gape at them with never a word.
Read full poem →For shame, old maniacs! Bring down those toss’d arms, and let your white hair be;
Here gape your great grand-sons—their wives gaze at them from the windows,
See how well dress’d—see how orderly they conduct themselves.