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Choriambic   Listen
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Choriambic  adj.  Pertaining to a choriamb.





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"Choriambic" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Dhoon and subsequently sentenced to decaudation by the cruel Scandinavian invader, MAGNUS BARFOD. The scene of the trial in the great synclinorium of Greeba Castle—exhibiting contemporaneous carboniferous tuffs, soft argillaceous rocks with choriambic fossils as well as later dolerite dykes, amid which the feline amenities of the Princess were illustrated with miraculous agility by Miss Agneesh Crannoge—compares favourably with the most ambitious enormities ever perpetrated by the genius of BAKST, DIAGHILEV, or ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, December 15, 1920 • Various


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