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"ref": "1660, Nathaniel Ingelo, Bentivolio and Urania, London: Richard Marriot, Book 2, pp. 79-80:",
"text": "[…] she seem’d to have woven the Rainbow into a loose Robe, which being so rarified that she might be seen through it, and also spatter’d with radiant Jewells in the forms of Starrs […]",
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"ref": "1949, Arthur Koestler, Promise and Fulfilment, New York: Macmillan, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 218:",
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"text": "1955, Samuel Beckett and Patrick Bowles (translators), Molloy by Samuel Beckett, in Three Novels, London: Calder, 1994, p. 128,\nThe roof’s serrated ridge, the single chimney-stack with its four flues, stood out faintly against the sky spattered with a few dim stars."
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"text": "Patches of light sifting through them [the trees] spattered the concrete walks with sunshine.",
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"ref": "1996, Guy Vanderhaeghe, chapter 19, in The Englishman’s Boy, New York: Anchor, page 178:",
"text": "Then they began to climb, steering to open uplands spattered with yellow cinquefoil […]",
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"text": "Perhaps ev’n I, reserv’d by angry Fate\nThe last sad Relick of my ruin’d State,\n(Dire Pomp of sov’reign Wretchedness!) must fall,\nAnd stain the Pavement of my regal Hall;\nWhere famish’d Dogs, late Guardians of my Door,\nShall lick their mangled Master’s spatter’d Gore.",
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"ref": "1877, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Harold, London: Henry S. King, act II, scene 2, page 70:",
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"ref": "1989, David Foster Wallace, “Westward the course of empire takes its way”, in Girl with Curious Hair:",
"text": "Streaks of DeHaven’s real face can be seen through the trademark face as the clown slams the hood shut in the spattered rain.",
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"ref": "1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, New York: Scribner, Part 1, Chapter 8, p. 74:",
"text": "[…] they had seen him, at the sound of the alarm, rush like a madman from his window in Gant’s shop, leaving the spattered fragments of a watch upon his desk […]",
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"ref": "1945, Henry Miller, “The Soul of Anaesthesia”, in The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, New York: New Directions, pages 88–89:",
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"text": "they fondly thinking to allay\nThir appetite with gust, instead of Fruit\nChewd bitter Ashes, which th’ offended taste\nWith spattering noise rejected:",
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"ref": "1956, Langston Hughes, chapter 8, in I Wonder as I Wander, New York: Hill and Wang, published 1993, page 374:",
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"ref": "1990, Edna O’Brien, “‘Oft in the Stilly Night’”, in Lantern Slides, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 17:",
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"ref": "1994, Paul Theroux, chapter 25, in Millroy the Magician, New York: Random House, page 220:",
"text": "Most mornings he roasted lamb, turning it on a spit, where it spattered and dripped […]",
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"ref": "1996, Guy Vanderhaeghe, chapter 19, in The Englishman’s Boy, New York: Anchor, page 178:",
"text": "Then they began to climb, steering to open uplands spattered with yellow cinquefoil […]",
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"ref": "1720, Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintott, Volume 6, Book 22, lines 92-97, p. 7:",
"text": "Perhaps ev’n I, reserv’d by angry Fate\nThe last sad Relick of my ruin’d State,\n(Dire Pomp of sov’reign Wretchedness!) must fall,\nAnd stain the Pavement of my regal Hall;\nWhere famish’d Dogs, late Guardians of my Door,\nShall lick their mangled Master’s spatter’d Gore.",
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"ref": "1877, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Harold, London: Henry S. King, act II, scene 2, page 70:",
"text": "O God, that I were in some wide field\nWith nothing but my battle-axe and him\nTo spatter his brains!",
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"ref": "1989, David Foster Wallace, “Westward the course of empire takes its way”, in Girl with Curious Hair:",
"text": "Streaks of DeHaven’s real face can be seen through the trademark face as the clown slams the hood shut in the spattered rain.",
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"ref": "1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, New York: Scribner, Part 1, Chapter 8, p. 74:",
"text": "[…] they had seen him, at the sound of the alarm, rush like a madman from his window in Gant’s shop, leaving the spattered fragments of a watch upon his desk […]",
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"ref": "1945, Henry Miller, “The Soul of Anaesthesia”, in The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, New York: New Directions, pages 88–89:",
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"ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 564-567:",
"text": "they fondly thinking to allay\nThir appetite with gust, instead of Fruit\nChewd bitter Ashes, which th’ offended taste\nWith spattering noise rejected:",
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"ref": "1956, Langston Hughes, chapter 8, in I Wonder as I Wander, New York: Hill and Wang, published 1993, page 374:",
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"ref": "1990, Edna O’Brien, “‘Oft in the Stilly Night’”, in Lantern Slides, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 17:",
"text": "Later, the two priests left together, […] their hoods pulled up because it had begun to spatter with rain.",
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"ref": "1994, Paul Theroux, chapter 25, in Millroy the Magician, New York: Random House, page 220:",
"text": "Most mornings he roasted lamb, turning it on a spit, where it spattered and dripped […]",
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"text": "1647, John Hall, “A Genethliacon to the Infant Muse of his dearest Friend” in Poems, London: J. Rothwell,\nLet envy spatter what it can,\nThis Embryon will prove a man."
},
{
"text": "1728, John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera, Dublin: George Risk et al., Act II, Scene 13, “Good-morrow, Gossip Joan,” p. 42,\nWhy how now, Madam Flirt?\nIf you thus must chatter;\nAnd are for flinging Dirt,\nLet’s try who best can spatter;"
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"text": "1770, George Saville Carey, “To a Friend” in Analects in Verse and Prose, London: P. Shatwell et al., Volume 2, p. 171,\nI Wrote a letter long ago,\nBut did not like it, you must know,\nSo rather chose to take my time,\nAnd write my own defence in rhime,\nThough not in your be-crabbed stile,\nTo spatter, threaten, and revile;"
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"ref": "1793, Charles Dibdin, chapter 9, in The Younger Brother, volume 3, London: for the author, page 143:",
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"ref": "1995, Philip Pullman, “Northern Lights”, in The Golden Compass, New York: Knopf, published 2003, Part 3, Chapter 19, p. 286:",
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"ref": "1904, Joseph Conrad, chapter 8, in Nostromo:",
"text": "[Father Roman] had shriven many simple souls on the battlefields of the Republic, kneeling by the dying on hillsides, in the long grass, in the gloom of the forests, to hear the last confession with the smell of gunpowder smoke in his nostrils, the rattle of muskets, the hum and spatter of bullets in his ears.",
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"ref": "1952, John Steinbeck, chapter 48, in East of Eden, New York: Penguin, published 1981, page 606:",
"text": "He went through the darkened parlor with its low early evening spatter of conversation.",
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"ref": "1964, James Baldwin, “Nothing Personal”, in Collected Essays, New York: Library of America, published 1998, page 692:",
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},
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"text": "It was untidy; the quarters of someone not used to looking after herself; to seat himself he removed the stained cup and plate and a spatter of envelopes, sheets of opened letters, withered apple-peel, old Sunday paper, from a chair.",
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"msg": "more than one value in \"alt\": (aekchebang'ul deung'eul) twigida vs. 액체방울 등을",
"path": [
"spatter"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "spatter",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1147",
"msg": "suspicious related form tags ['canonical']: 'spatter [from 1790s]' in 'spatter (plural spatters) [from 1790s]'",
"path": [
"spatter"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "spatter",
"trace": ""
}
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