Read full poem →It was all e’en as before, like losings in games played for nothing.
Yes, when I came, with mean fears in my soul, with a semi-performance
At the first step breaking down in its pitiful rôle of evasion,
Dictionary Entry
A semi-detached house.
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Poetry examples for “semi”
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Read full poem →Mr. Cibber, “ the flat cieling, that is. now over the
“orchestra, was then a semi-oval arch, that sprung
“ fifteen feet higher from above the cornice. The
Read full poem →And letters which keep drugged the public cup.
The walls hear whispers and the semi-tones
Of voices in the corner, over telephones
Read full poem →criticism has been oddly scanty. There was a history-of-ideas study
by Paul H. Kocher, and then a pleasant, semi-psychological study by
M. Poirier of the Sorbonne translated in England last year (1951).
Read full poem →but appears to have belonged, by descent or creation, to the lesser
nobility of the semi-Polish Volhynia. He began life (1660) as a page of
honour in the Court of King John Casimir V. of Poland, where he studied
Read full poem →who drove me into the city. I entered the office of the black-coated,
semi-clerical gentleman who had received the Powlison indorsements.
My stick pounded his floor. The heels of my brogans made the place