Without doubt, Lamb's taste on several matters was peculiar; for instance, there were a few obsolete words, such as arride, agnize, burgeon, which he fancied, and chose to rescue from oblivion. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Lamb]
Here are the cottage and the bungalow for the cobbeler and the brandnewburgher: 2 but Izolde, her chaplet gardens, an litlee plads af liefest pose, arride the winnerful wonders off, the winner-ful wonnerful wanders off, 3 with hedges of ivy and hollywood and bower of mistletoe, are, tho if it theem tho and yeth if you pleathes, 4 for the blithehaired daughter of. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
Pharisees of academic music and so arride the guileless public. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference
The most hackneyed device may seem brilliantly original to him, the stalest stage trick as fresh as if just hot from the brain; and jokes that deterred the dove from returning to the ark arride him vastly. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
Shustoke and Smeeth my soul arride. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 16, 1916] Reference
Ne arride a tutti egual la forte arnica?. From Wordnik.com. [Essai Sur L'homme: Poëme Philosophique] Reference
Nunc arride resurgentem!. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Hymns and Tunes] Reference
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