Read full poem →Anno 1710, Jan. 24, Avita mea piissimae mem., Eliz. Turner, migravit in
coelum, annum agens 74.
Dictionary Entry
(Muslim demonology) A genie and descendant of the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form, equivalent to demons in Jewish demonology.
Origin
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Common Phrases
van jan. janfeb jan1 jansangh jande jan
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Poetry examples for “jan”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →admirers can no longer be set at nought, and I am making
arrangements to publish within the present year Jan Van Hunks
and the 'Sphinx Sonnets,' the former of which will show a
Read full poem →the fourteen points set forth in the address of
President Wilson delivered to Congress on Jan-
uary 8th, 1918, and the principles subsequently
Read full poem →3. HABIT OF PERFECTION. Two autographs in A; the earlier
dated Jan. 18, 19, 1866. The second, which is a good
deal altered, is apparently of same date as text of No. 2.
Read full poem →Jan. 19. Leave Athens, arrive Vari.
Read full poem →1846. No. VIII. _Luria_ and _A Soul's Tragedy_.
Jan. 10, 1845. Correspondence between Mr. Browning and Miss
Barrett begun.
Read full poem →To Miss Logan, With Beattie’s Poems, For A New-Year’s Gift, Jan. 1,
1787.
Read full poem →and cold weather, on the coast of Holland. His health afterwards
declined; and, on Jan. 19, 1705-6, he died at Bath.
Read full poem →[8:1] First published in 1834. The third stanza was published in the
_Morning Post_, Jan. 2, 1798, entitled 'To the Lord Mayor's Nose'.
William Gill (see ll. 15, 20) was Lord Mayor in 1788.