And in this way he made that sort of anapaest which is called the Aristophanic anapaest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference

Again, Pheneos is a dactyl in lxviii. 111, while Satrachus is an anapaest in xcv.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems and Fragments] Reference

In order to deal with English verse, you need to talk about only five feet: the iambus, the trochee, the anapaest, the dactyl, and the spondee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov] Reference

The singers have been induced to make their own selections, and put forward, as Mr. Browning says, their best foot, anapaest or trochee, or whatever it may be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters on Literature] Reference

Every boy or girl finds the metre imperfect, but the pedant comes to its defence with a tribrachys or an anapaest, and sets it right at once by applying to one language the rules of another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies] Reference

A spondee or anapaest is permitted in the fifth foot, tend to relieve the monotony, though it does much to give the individual lines such weight as they possess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference

In the ancient ballads, Scots and English, the substitution of the anapaest for the iambic foot, is of perpetual recurrence, and gives them a remarkable elasticity and animation; but we never fail to recognize a uniformity of measure, which the use of nearly equipollent feet cannot, on the strictest metrical principles, be thought to impair. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference

'An anapaest is all their music's song.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries] Reference

A dissyllable or an anapaest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Note-Books of Samuel Butler] Reference