anile
Example Sentences
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A half anile flickered across the queen's face.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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Our babbling, anile friend, in the very looseness of her prating has let out the truth.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841 by Various
I happen to possess the work; and a more anile, credulous, solemn fop never existed since the days of old Audley.
From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Such a relief must have come to many readers of Cowper, who would put down his religion as rank fanaticism, and his satire as anile declamation.
From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Sir Leslie Stephen
The object of Zoe's anile affection was a capable man, and justified his rather humiliating elevation by good service to the empire.
From The Byzantine Empire by Charles William Chadwick Oman