Read full poem →They lost their weeks ; they vext the souls of deans ‘
They rode ; they betted ; made a hundred friends,
And caught the blossoms of the flying terms,
Dictionary Entry
To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
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Poetry examples for “rode”
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Read full poem →We follow’d up the river as we rode,
And rode till midnight when the college lights
Read full poem →But rode a simple knight among his knights,
And many of these in richer arms than he,
Read full poem →White and shining in the silver-flecked water.
While the moon rode over the garden,
High in the arch of night,
Read full poem →The burly form of an abbot appeared,
Reading his office he rode to the town.
And the fool got up, for his heart was cheered.
Read full poem →t>r the Spanish Rogue^ part ii. chap. 4. The story of Dinant, Clereraont,
and Lamira, being borrowed from Don Lewis de Castro, and Don Rode-
rigo de Montalva. The like story is in other novels; as in Scarron's No-
Read full poem →Serv. Are you the gentleman? cry you mercy, sir:
I was required bv a gentleman i’ the city, as I rode
out at this end of the town, to deliver you this letter,
Read full poem →The first day we rode our bikes to Chelsey and parked them. It was a
terrible feeling. Most of those kids, at least all the older ones, had their own
Read full poem →With Gella, Lesbia, Thais, Rhodope,
Rode all to Staines,[466] for no cause serious,
But for their mirth and for their lechery.
Read full poem →Grown weary with a week’s exile
From those fair friends, I rode to see
The church-restorings; lounged awhile,