plaint
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Plaint DARK, deep, and cold the current flows Unto the sea where no wind blows, Seeking the land which no one knows.
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
A sort of necessary order in the development of Genius is, first, Complaint; second, Plaint; third, Love.
From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Thoreau, Henry David
I have taken the liberty to give as a title for it "The Plaint of the Merrimac."
From Whittier-land A Handbook of North Essex, Containing Many Anecdotes of and Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Collected. by Pickard, Samuel T. (Samuel Thomas)
The Lay of the Lost Critic, The Plaint of the Grand Piano, are capital specimens of the author's humour, and Christmas Eve of his true pathos.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 26, 1890 by Various
"Hymn to the Door-Knob," He laughingly calls it, or "The Plaint of the Sequestered Cat."
From Barks and Purrs by Colette
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