Read full poem →Who shall redeem it anew? but we, if thou wilt, let us fly;
Let us take to us, now that the white skies thrill with a moon
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Dictionary Entry
To adapt to; to learn, grasp or master.
In a Sentence
“Although he had never skated before, he took to it quickly, and soon glided around the ice with ease.”
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Poetry examples for “take to”
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Read full poem →Love*s Pilgrimage, a comedy. This I take to be an admirable comedy.
The foundation of it is built on a novel of Miguel de Cervantes, called
Read full poem →(with my allowance) take to her lavirful husband, which of 'em she pleases?
AjU, Content.
Read full poem →And treated well, and let alone,
Will kindly take to what's their own,
And always be original,
Read full poem →singular building? See! it towers above all others, and lies to
the eastward of what I take to be the royal palace!”
Read full poem →"Heavenly Father" -- take to thee
The supreme iniquity
Read full poem →O I never dreamed of parting or that trouble had a sting,
Or that pleasures like a flock of birds would ever take to wing,
Leaving nothing but a little naked spring.
Read full poem →For Boris, loath to take to his bed,
Read full poem →"In this play, (which I take to be the best comedy of his) he so much
exposed the keeping part of the town, that the play was stopt when it