Read full poem →To gaze on basset, and remain unwarm'd?
When Kings, Queens, Knaves, are set in decent rank;
Exposed in glorious heaps the tempting bank,
Dictionary Entry
To take root, become established.
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“That was the point at which the rot set in.”
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Poetry examples for “set in”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →We dropt with evening on a rustic town
Set in a gleaming river’s crescent-curve,
Close at the boundary of the liberties ; 170
Read full poem →A man stands before the house. He sees the silver-blue moonlight,
and set in it, over his head, staring and flickering, eyes of geranium red.
Read full poem →Every twist and turn, every hollow and hill!
They are set in my heart to a pulsing tune
Gay as a honey-bee humming in June.
Read full poem →Of fine and polished ebony.
Set in the close-grained wood
Were quaint devices;
Read full poem →Did it not truly accept as its summum and ultimum bonum
That mere common and may-be indifferent soil it is set in?
Would it have force to develop and open its young cotyledons,
Read full poem →the former, gross expressions are generallv the language of low life, and
are given to characters which are set in despicable lights : in the latter,
lewdness is frequently the characteristic of the hero of the comedy, and so
Read full poem →Set in the window, bringing memories
Of fruit-trees laden by low-singing rills,
Read full poem →Set in the window, bringing memories
Of fruit-trees laden by low-singing rills,
Read full poem →But as, at dusk, we reach'd Penzance,
A drizzling rain set in.