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  • noun Plural form of bleak.

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Examples

  • I went and lay on my belly, poring over the clear dulcet little water, and presently saw two tiny bleaks, or ablets, go gliding low among the swaying moss-hair of the bottom-rocks, and thought how gladly would I be one of them, with my home so thatched and shady, and my life drowned in their wide-eyed reverie.

    The Purple Cloud 1906

  • While she is still cogitating as to how Nacena could have come to this knowledge, and wondering the while, the latter bleaks in upon her wonderment, and once more urges her to flight, again speaking of him who is near and dear, so anxiously expecting her.

    Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco Mayne Reid 1850

  • We once caught in an hour 6000 fishes like bleaks.

    A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784

  • So here it lies on the bottom of the river, with sun bleaks playing with clocks hands.

    Fulldls.com 2008

  • So here it lies on the bottom of the river, with sun bleaks playing with clocks hands.

    Fulldls.com 2008

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