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[meed] / mid /


















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During the nine-day period between the King's death and his burial, most Britons had had their meed of public grief.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whoever wins or loses, the donor gets his meed of personal advertising and public acclaim.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I would deny no meed of praise or thanks."

From Time Magazine Archive

Nancy made a flat cake of white flour with a sprinkling of sugar on top, and Jenny pulled tender radishes and onions from her garden to give the taste of spring to their meed.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

With the lower level and the lesser meed he could be well content.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee

On board, Lindsea Wilbur, 24, was the epitome of vintage meeds modern. 

From Forbes ● Jul. 15, 2014

The bay, quoth she, is of the victours born, Yielded them by the vanquisht as theyr meeds, And they therewith doe poetes heads adorne, To sing the glory of their famous deeds.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser

“The man among you, ye Danish court men,    Who at Dyst has won most meeds; Him I am ready to fight, this day,    For both of our noble steeds.”

From Romantic Ballads, Translated from the Danish; and Miscellaneous Pieces by George Henry Borrow

When with high feats of force against the Moor they proved of sing'ular worth in Holy War, willèd Afonso that their mighty deeds commens'urate gifts command and equal meeds.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various

And on from Cyprus Venus speeds, Forbidding—ah! the pity— The Scythian lays, the Parthian meeds, And such irrelevant ditty.

From Echoes from the Sabine Farm by Roswell Martin Field


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