Read full poem →If these who darkened thy fair Son's face
I fought with, sparing not one, nor swerved
A hand's-breadth, Lord, in the perilous place--
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use sparingdiuretics sparingneither sparingeffect sparing. sparing
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Poetry examples for “sparing”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →spelling revels in redundant e's, while the printer of the 1645 book is
very sparing of them. But in cases where the spelling affects the
metre, we find that the printed text and Milton's manuscript closely
Read full poem →Uno’erleaped mountains of necessity,
Sparing us narrower margin than we deem.