Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant; Life we have loved, through green leaf and through sere, Though still the less we knew of its intent. From LearnThat.org. [William Morris (1834-1896), English poet, from The Earthly Paradise.]
He used it three and a half times in the book, annoying me at least as much as Andre Norton's use of 'sere' in every one of her books. From Wordnik.com. [In Which I Survive the Baton Death March] Reference
"Yes, sir, I'm a-looking, and there's a heap o 'sere' ood with a bit of. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story] Reference
Of sere grass shivering in the trade-wind's sweep. From Wordnik.com. [The California Birthday Book] Reference
When autumn's chill winds make this leaf look as sere. From Wordnik.com. [Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry] Reference
The sere and the verdant, the same course they took. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies] Reference
They had been traveling through tall, sere grass since midmorning. From Wordnik.com. [The Clan of the Cave Bear]
Many leaves were yet left on the boughs; but they were sere and withered. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
The oaks are now beginning to look sere, and their leaves have withered borders. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
Horses and Hounds go to battle, the plate is melted down, and all is sad and sere. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
He glared at the sere, windswept grasslands as he strode from one position to the next. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of Chaos]
The sere withered grass near the stream of solid ice was flat against the frozen ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
Green-painted wrought-iron furniture stood on a patch of winter-sere lawn faintly tinged with new growth. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittarius Whorl]
Kenny shivered and refused to dwell upon a phase of life that was like autumn and sere and drifting leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
Simes himself became the first African American to sere as chairman of the Arkansas Soil and Water Commission. From Wordnik.com. [Taylor Marsh: Of Teachable Moments] Reference
As for me, my days of youth an actyvity air over, an I'm in the sere an yaller leaf, with spells o 'rheumatics. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
How grim and sere to contemplate a world in which one would have to live in constant vigilance of one's friends?. From Wordnik.com. [Trust No One] Reference
Marx said the industrial working class would acknowledge no fatherland and would sere no nation's military efforts. From Wordnik.com. [From Bayonets To Tomahawks] Reference
A claw, a single claw, the sere black forefinger of a crone, crept up from beneath the sill and raked at the screen. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Lure]
There is not a particle of sere foliage to be seen, and it has, moreover, a glossy appearance, whence the specific name. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
Martin Luther was in the sere old age of his life, waiting for the command of the Master, which should bid him lay down his armor. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891] Reference
Some of the rock-loving ferns in dry places are known as "resurrection" ferns, reviving after their leaves have turned sere and brown. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
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