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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
metre .
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Examples
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Some of these have much poetry in them, being perfectly metred, but without rhyme.
Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography Edwin Eastman
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It bore a copy of verses, very roughly metred in the original Spanish, and which I may render somewhat thus --
Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Skip them one and all; you will, if you are wise, for they bear the ban of rhyme, are peevish, dull, ill-reasoned; but if you are not wise, (and, strange to say, malicious people tell me there are many such,) you may wish to see in print a metred inconclusive grumble.
An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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Skip them one and all; you will, if you are wise, for they bear the ban of rhyme, are peevish, dull, ill-reasoned; but if you are not wise, (and, strange to say, malicious people tell me there are many such,) you may wish to see in print a metred inconclusive grumble.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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Each capsule could be capable of delivering many metred doses over a period of years.
Gizmodo Brent Rose 2012
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"The first thing Danny Grewcock said to me was how tough the two years were going to be, that I had to take the positives while I was not playing rugby, when your life isn't metred out to you and you can go and do stuff other sportsmen wouldn't get the chance to do until they retire," he said.
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The rules are complicated by having the residents 'bays located next to metred spaces.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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The new metred system will reportedly allow users to view only a handful of stories before locking down and asking them to subscribe.
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"The metred model will allow us to remain a very, very large website at the same time as we get a second revenue stream," he said.
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"The metred model will allow us to remain a very, very large website at the same time as we get a second revenue stream," he said.
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