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rimy

[rahy-mee] / ˈraɪ mi /






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Of sailing, the weathers of the winter sea, the fishing itself, physical action and hardship, he gives a rimy, brilliant account.

From Time Magazine Archive

And the yellow light of the early year gilded the remotest hills of Ardno and Ben Ime, and the Old Man Mountain lifted his ancient rimy chin, still merrily defiant, to the sky.

From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro

Not far hence it is, reckoning by miles, that the Mere standeth, and over it hang rimy groves; a wood with clenched roots overshrouds the water.”

From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat

She had not seen Reddin's rimy shoulders, nor the cold glitter of the tombs.

From Gone to Earth by Mary Gladys Meredith Webb

The wind died away, and the trees stood as if turned into bronze, moveless, save when a small branch gave way and dropped its rimy burden, or a squirrel leaped from one top to another.

From The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range by Hamlin Garland

"I don't care who the man is, 'tis the rimiest morning we've had this fall."

From The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy


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