Dictionary Entry

tom

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/tɒm/Used In Literature ↓

A flat gong (without knob) that is struck with a felt-covered hammer.

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Poetry examples for “tom”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Would turn his brow of tan,
And Tom would pair with Nancy
And Dick step off with Fan;

Nor Congreve, Rowe, nor Stanyan,
Tom Burnet, or Tom D'Urfey may,
John Dunton, Steele, or any one.

As pimps grow rich, while gallants are undone.
Though Tom the poet writ with ease and pleasure,
The comic Tom abounds in other treasure.

With not one sin, but poetry,
This day Tom's fair account has run
(Without a blot) to eighty-one.

As one put drunk into the Packet-boat,
Tom May was hurry'd hence and did not know't.
But was amaz'd on the Elysian side,

Allan Thos A 41 TannerAv
Alldredge Tom A 127 HollyRd
Allen Alton Warrington His Indn Hd

Of jungles, primitive and subtle, throbbed
Against my echoing breast, and tom-toms sobbed
In every pulse-beat of my frame. The din

SAMUEL CLEemeEns, ‘‘Mark Twain,’’ humorist; author
of Tom Sawyer, Innocence Abroad, Pudd’nhead Wilson,
Following the Equator, etc.

pass Mr Tom Larsen twirls among

string breaks(or something)my uncle Frank breaks into
tears. my uncle Tom