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apery

[ey-puh-ree] / ˈeɪ pə ri /






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It is a pallid apery of the academic comedies that the English, frankly, do better.

From Time Magazine Archive

I saw there many women, dressed without regard to the season or the demands of the place, in apery, or, as it looked, in mockery, of European fashions.

From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Fuller, Margaret

It pleased me far better, than if the houses and gardens, and pleasure fields, had been in a nobler taste: for this nobler taste would have been mere apery.

From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

There was nothing original as yet discoverable in him; nothing to deliver him from the poor imitative apery in which he imagined himself a poet.

From Sir Gibbie by MacDonald, George

He sometimes spoke, with a certain zeal, of my starting a Periodical: Why not lift up some kind of war-flag against the obese platitudes, and sickly superstitious aperies and impostures of the time?

From Life of John Sterling by Carlyle, Thomas

I tell thee again, with Domine, labia aperies, If now to hear it be thine ease.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew

Well, mark then, and hearken once for all, Or else hear it again thou never shall; My book, I say, began with Domine, labia aperies.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew

I trow it began with Domine labia, aperies.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew

Was it all this while, Domine, labia aperies?

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew




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