anacreontic
Example Sentences
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He said this to himself as an officer was trolling forth an anacreontic song.
From Commodore Junk by George Manville Fenn
With equal acuteness and adaptation to character, he dedicated the poems to the Prince of Wales, an anacreontic hero.
From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppee
A flower-stand filled with roses best pleases the majority of women, who cultivate a love of flowers in order to provoke anacreontic and obsolete comparisons from their antiquated admirers.
From The Cross of Berny by Florence Fendall
No anacreontic thoughts came to me, I assure you, nor any disposition to rhyme in ette, herbette, filette, coudrette.
From The Cross of Berny by Florence Fendall
The only poem of his that still lives is the beautiful little anacreontic beginning "Busy, curious, thirsty Fly."
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. (John William) Cousin
