expletive
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Is not Heav'nly as much an Expletive as O, and can either of these Couplets deserve to be plac'd in the Front of the Iliad?
From Letters Concerning Poetical Translations And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. by Benson, William
Expletive syllables in the beginning of lines where the tune is sharp and gay are often an improvement, but they should never follow a double rhyme.
From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)
Expletive, eks′ple-tiv, adj. filling out: added for ornament or merely to fill up.—n. a word or syllable inserted for ornament or to fill up a vacancy: an oath.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Expletive cries of Maltese venders shot up, sudden and violent.
From The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 by Gillman, James
Vocabulary lists containing expletive
Between Shades of Gray
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We Dream of Space
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Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet
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