alliterative verse. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : alliterative verse. From Dictionary.com.
I'm just back from a blog break (after taking courses in alliterative prose ... just kidding). From Wordnik.com. [Still here ...] Reference
Anyway, someone whose main talents seem to be self-promotion and coining alliterative phrases should not be calling others trolls. From Wordnik.com. [Meeting at the fringes « BuzzMachine] Reference
The style of alliterative verse is not monotonous. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
"An alliterative amusement," said Mrs. Laudersdale. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861] Reference
For alliterative advertisement it may be useful; e.g. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 5, 1891] Reference
England kept the alliterative verse through the Middle. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
Western and the Northern -- modes of the alliterative verse. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
Langland has, you see, gone back to the old alliterative poetry. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
An alliterative couplet too was made upon him to that import. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827] Reference
They seem to proceed simply on the alliterative principle mentioned by. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850] Reference
The power of alliterative harmony in the original song is extraordinary. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
"Heliand" (Healer, Saviour) in alliterative verse, of the ninth century. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
Lyly not grow wearied of perpetually riding these alliterative trick-ponies?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
At intervals the reader is treated with a sprinkling of alliterative sentences. From Wordnik.com. [Life in a Thousand Worlds] Reference
And so I came up with the alliterative phrase "nattering nabobs of negativism.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 27, 2008] Reference
In early alliterative poetry it is especially used antithetically with "bliss.". From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
But no new discovery, even of a Middle English alliterative poem of Beowulf or of. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
Tom, I won't ask you to be as alliterative, but your best determination as to won?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2004] Reference
Of the heroic poetry in the Teutonic alliterative verse, the history must be largely conjectural. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
The alliterative poetry down to its last days has a vocabulary different from that of prose, and much richer. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
The alliterative verse, wherever it is found, declares itself as belonging to an elaborate poetical tradition. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
Does not the variation "cobbler's dog" tend to prove the alliterative principle for which I had been contending?. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850] Reference
Prof. DORN: He uses this alliterative language: disrupt, dismantle, defeat al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan. From Wordnik.com. [President Obama: U.S. Combat Mission In Iraq Over] Reference
Although for the most part written in prose, the annals of several years are given in the alliterative Saxon verse. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
He committed many of his crimes without wearing shoes or socks -- hence his alliterative nickname, and his Internet fanclub. From Wordnik.com. [Barefoot Bandit Escape Attempt Caught On Tape (VIDEO)] Reference
Both are in alliterative verse; the first composed about the end, and the second about the middle, of the fourteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
Hills, and like him, they wrote in the Anglo-Saxon verse form, alliterative, unrimed, and in this case without stanza divisions. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
And it's exciting to me to use more, you know, pretty words that have a lot of nice alliterative and consonant qualities to them. From Wordnik.com. [Colin Meloy: '10-Dollar Words' For A Cause] Reference
The fourteenth century is the last in which alliterative verse really flourished, though it survived even beyond the Renaissance. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
Gibbs is going to have to work on his alliterative skills to come up with anything as memorable as nattering nabobs of negativism. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Gibbs was right to criticize the 'professional left'] Reference
The alliterative verse is applied in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries to every kind of subject except those of Germanic tradition. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
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