arride

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Above all thy rarities, old Oxenford, what do most arride and solace me, are thy repositories of mouldering learning, thy shelves— What a place to be in is an old library!

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Lamb, Charles

If regardant, then maintain your station, brisk and irpe, show the supple motion of your pliant body, but in chief of your knee, and hand, which cannot but arride her proud humour exceedingly.

From Cynthia's Revels by Jonson, Ben

Gaude, plaude Magdalena, Tumb� Christus exiit; Tristis est per acta scena, Victor mortis rediit; Quem deflebis morientem, Nunc arride resurgentem: Alleluia resonet!

From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle

I read it a good deal later in French, and, being then better qualified, did perceive these merits, though it still did not greatly "arride" me.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George

A pretty air; in general, I like it well: but in particular, your long die-note did arride me most, but it was somewhat too long.

From Cynthia's Revels by Jonson, Ben