Read full poem →I passed; and know not to this day
If gold or jet her girlish hair,
If black, or brown, or lucid-grey
Dictionary Entry
A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. jetpropulsion jetblack jetengine jetaircraft jetengines jetjet gasjet water
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Poetry examples for “jet”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And soon his body, colored like soap-stone,
Gemmed with eyes of jet.
And you wondered in a trance of thought
Read full poem →The beams in blossom with their spots of jet
Smelt sweet as gardens wheresoever met;
Read full poem →Though parents grudge, and you, we're met,
And cloister'd in these living walls of jet.
Though use make you apt to kill me,
Read full poem →When Cynthia smiles upon a summer's night,
And peers among the cloudlet's jet and white,
As though she were reclining in a bed
Read full poem →A table, and, half anguish'd, threw thereon
A cloth of woven crimson, gold, and jet:--
O for some drowsy Morphean amulet!
Read full poem →jet see the shadow of his own early decay. Gray, who had in
vain solicited the Cambridge professorship of modern his-
Read full poem →Henceforth I wear no stripe but thine;
Ashes and jet all hues outshine.
Why are not diamonds black and gray,
Read full poem →And bear the scorn that’s in her e’e?
For it’s jet, jet black, an’ it’s like a hawk,
An’ it winna let a body be.
Read full poem →All black and bare, I ween;
Jet-black and bare, save where with rust
Of mouldy damps and charnel crust