Although my aunt appears anile, she still has a lot of spunk. From LearnThat.org.
She says in an anile thready high cracking voice, "Oh, you're reading.". From Wordnik.com. [An essay about how when you're reading a Kindle in public, people don't see what book you're reading.] Reference
Our babbling, anile friend, in the very looseness of her prating has let out the truth. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841] Reference
Not too be too anile, but I think that is from A New Pilgrims Progress, not Roughing it. From Wordnik.com. [Digesting Good Literature] Reference
Once again, being too specific results in being rather anile (anybody want to graph this?). From Wordnik.com. [You tell us, in the comments.] Reference
Croaker expended a great deal of energy keeping the anile off his face, but Lillehammer had gone red. From Wordnik.com. [The Kaisho]
The other was anile, which led me to uncover what I like to call the Great anile Conspiracy — a strange and almost exciting phenomenon that I hope to detail in an upcoming post. From Wordnik.com. [Review: Wordnik’s Thesaurus « Motivated Grammar] Reference
Her forehead indeed is here Argentum capitis praeter, anile nihil. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Letters of William Cowper, Esq: With Remarks on Epistolary Writers] Reference
Our Alabama contemporary is but an anile echo of the New York Tribune, a faint adumbration of the Chicago Inter-Ocean. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10] Reference
California no longer "knocked" as in the mordant nineties, nor waited for the anile East to set the seal of its dry approval before discovering that. From Wordnik.com. [The Sisters-In-Law] Reference
The feeblest commissioner was James-a-Croft, who had already exhibited himself with very anile characteristics, and whose subsequent manifestations were to seem like dotage. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Dr. Grey's is a disgusting case: for he swallowed with the most anile credulity every story, the most extravagant that the malice of those times could invent against either the. From Wordnik.com. [Note Book of an English Opium-Eater] Reference
A friend of mine was dining at a large dinner of clergymen, and a story, as true as the sausage story above given, was told regarding me, by one of those reverend divines in whose frocks sit some anile chatterboxes, as any man who knows this world knows. From Wordnik.com. [English Satires] Reference
A friend of mine was dining at a large dinner of clergymen, and a story, as true as the sausage story above given, was told regarding me, by one of those reverend divines, in whose frock sits some anile chatter-boxes, as any man who knows this world knows. From Wordnik.com. [Roundabout Papers] Reference
From the want of this searching logic, there is a perpetual confusion of the subjective with the objective in the arguments of our divines, together with a childish or anile overrating of human testimony, and an ignorance in the art of sifting it, which necessarily engendered credulity. From Wordnik.com. [The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference
The Bramas which be of the kings countrey (for the king is a Brama) haue their legs or bellies, or some part of their body, as they thinke good themselues, made black with certaine things which they haue: they vse to pricke the skinne, and to put on it a kinde of anile or blacking, which doth continue alwayes. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III] Reference
For instance, the story that tried and sturdy soldiers and seamen were deterred from advancing a few miles, and were driven back to Portugal by the 'thick impenetrable darkness which was guarded by a strange noise,' and by anile fancies about the 'Mouth of Hell' and 'Cipango,' reads like mere stuff and nonsense. From Wordnik.com. [To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I] Reference
'a most excellent man, a most immaculate Whig, but as simple a poor soul as ever existed, except his editor, who has given extracts from the good creature's diary that are very near as anile as Ashmole's. From Wordnik.com. [Life Of Johnson]
Brama) haue their legs or bellies, or some part of their body, as they thinke good themselues, made black with certaine things which they haue: they vse to pricke the skinne, and to put on it a kinde of anile or blacking, which doth continue alwayes. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference
His anile was somehow feline. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
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