vocable
Example Sentences
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There is no such Saxon vocable as dare, to stare.
From Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various
The word, which Littleton called "an heptastic vocable," comprehended the names of the seven Lord Mayors in whose mayoralties the Monument was begun, continued, and completed.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
Then the wrath of the old Inspector became vocable.
From The Red Acorn by McElroy, John
And, though for Oxford men the savour of the name itself has long evaporated through its local connexion, many things show that for the Founder himself it was no empty vocable.
From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
I regret to see that vile and barbarous vocable talented, stealing out of the newspapers into the leading reviews and most respectable publications of the day.
From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson
