Read full poem →Dream,” but he did not live to see it in book form. He
died, after a comparatively brief illness, on the sixth of
October, 1892. To the music of the singing of two of his
Dictionary Entry
(not used in the plural) The person or thing in the sixth position.
Origin
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Common Phrases
century sixthgrade sixthday sixthyear sixthedition sixth. sixthsixth one
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Poetry examples for “sixth”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Sir Cyrill Wich. — A Sixth Clerk, and
brother-in-law to the Lord of Bath.
Read full poem →The Sixth Number, which completes the First Volume
contains a beautiful engraving of Mr. Kean, and the first pan
Read full poem →acted and printed in 1612-13, when he was only in his twenty-
sixth year. His application to the law was probably not very
intense; he devoted himself to the Dramatic Muse from an
Read full poem →"was induced to give this extraordinary version of the line by
recollecting that in the sixth book of Ovid's _Metamorphoses_ Arachne is
termed 'Maeonis,' while her father is mentioned as a dyer."
Read full poem →had been coyned under King Henry the Eight and once before abased by
King Edward the Sixth, were again brought to a lower
valuacion."--Hayward's _Annals of Queen Elizabeth_, p. 73.
Read full poem →SixtH EPocH - - - - - 473
Reconstruction, Grant’s Administration, Hayes’
Read full poem →Shakespeare is hardly a case in point, his “Venus and Adonis”
having been published, we believe, in his twenty-sixth year.
Milton’s Latin verses show tenderness, a fine eye for nature, and
Read full poem →The sixth line is worthy of To-em-mei. But Rimbaud has not exhausted his
idyllic moods or capacities in one poem. Witness: