Dictionary Entry

john

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ˈdʒɒn/Used In Literature ↓

A prostitute's client.

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Common Phrases

. johnwiley johnadams johnpaul johnbrown johnstuart johnjohn sir

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Poetry examples for “john”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John,
Guard the bed that I lie on;

'But ho! our nephew!' crieth one;
'Ho!' quoth another, 'Cozen John;'
And stoppen, and lough, and callen out,--

Approach: but awful! lo! the Aegerian grot,[70]
Where, nobly-pensive, St John sate and thought;
Where British sighs from dying Wyndham stole,

John Gay, the idlest, best-natured, and best-loved man of letters of his
day, was the special friend of Pope. His early work, 'The Shepherd's

NEAR THIS PLACE LIE THE BODIES OF
JOHN HEWET AND SARAH DREW,
AN INDUSTRIOUS YOUNG MAN,

Tom Burnet, or Tom D'Urfey may,
John Dunton, Steele, or any one.

See, madam, see the arts o'erthrown
Between John Overton and you!

THE SATIRES OF DR JOHN DONNE, DEAN OF ST PAUL'S, VERSIFIED.

LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1871.

were John Mitchell Kemble, the Anglo-Saxon scholar; William
Henry Brookfield, long an eloquent preacher in London ; James