Dictionary Entry
Liberal
In a Sentence
“own the libs”
Origin
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Common Phrases
Poetry examples for “lib”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →rowed from the story of Mundus and Paulina, described at large by Jo-^
sephus, lib. xviii. chap. 4. This play Sir Aston Cokain has chiefly com-
mended in his copy of verses on Mr. Fletcher's plays. See the verses
Read full poem →the writers of those times ; as Cassidori Chron. Amm. Marcell. Hist. Eva-
grius, lib. ii. Procopius, Sec.
Read full poem →Chordis carmina temperans.'
BOETHIUS, _De Cons. Phil._ Lib. III. Met. 12.
Read full poem →Chordis carmina temperans.'
, De Cons. Phil. Lib. Met. 12.
Read full poem →"Princess of Cleves." In his translation of Ovid's "Love Elegies,"
Lib. II, Eleg. XIX. Dryden mentions, "an easy Whetstone whore."
Read full poem →_Higre_. Unhappy is the vessel, says that ancient historian, on whom
its force falls laterally. _De Gestis Pontificum_, Lib. IV.--Drayton
describes the same river,
Read full poem →allowed here on the famous correction among the Errata prefixed to the
first edition: 'Lib. 2. v. 414, for we read wee.' This correction
shows not only that Milton had theories about spelling, but also that he
Read full poem →schoolboy, Byron consulted the pages of Diodorus Siculus (_Bibliothecae
Historicae_, lib. ii. pp. 78, sq., ed. 1604), and, possibly to ward off
and neutralize the distracting influence of Shakespeare and other
Read full poem →What pity, alas! that so lib’ral a mind
Should so long be to news-paper essays confin’d;