plaint
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The Lay of the Lost Critic, The Plaint of the Grand Piano, are capital specimens of the author's humour, and Christmas Eve of his true pathos.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 26, 1890 by Various
Plaint DARK, deep, and cold the current flows Unto the sea where no wind blows, Seeking the land which no one knows.
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
I have taken the liberty to give as a title for it "The Plaint of the Merrimac."
From Whittier-land A Handbook of North Essex, Containing Many Anecdotes of and Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Collected. by Pickard, Samuel T. (Samuel Thomas)
Plaint, cause of action in, not to vary from original statement, 10 9 ...
From Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya by Edward Röer
Plaint and belief and elegy, despair and triumph, but for the most part good sense and jolly indifference, go trampling out of the windows any time these five hundred years.
From Jacob's Room by Woolf, Virginia
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