Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Another spelling of
tossed , preterit and past participle of toss.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of Toss.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete Simple past tense and past participle of
toss .
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Examples
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Judge, then, of the delight with which he turned over the pages of a new book, given him this birthday by the kind Mr. Telford, in whose carriage he had first seen those blue hills -- a book in which all his mountain ideals, and more, were caught and kept enshrined -- visions still, and of mightier peaks and ampler valleys, romantically "tost" and sublimely
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And in _The Merry Devill of Edmonton_, 1631, there is a comical story of how Smug _the miller_ was _singing a catch_ with the _merry Parson_ in an alehouse, and how they 'tost' the words "_I'll ty my mare in thy ground_,"'so long to and fro,' that Smug forgot he was singing a catch, and began to quarrel with the Parson, 'thinking verily, he had meant (as he said in his song) to _ty his mare in his ground_.'
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Richard Trumka: Whose America Is That? Richard Trumka 2010
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Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Richard Trumka: Whose America Is That? Richard Trumka 2010
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Let's take a gander at the homeless, tempest-tost who landed on our levee-depleted shores:
Melissa Smith: We Are Contenders. We Are New Orleans. We Are America. Melissa Smith 2010
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Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Richard Trumka: Whose America Is That? Richard Trumka 2010
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Emma Lazarus's Statue of Liberty sonnet famously welcomes "homeless, tempest-tost" newcomers, while Jimmy Santiago Baca tallies harsh realities that sometimes follow that greeting.
4th Of July Poems: The Best Poetry To Celebrate Independence Day 2010
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Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Arizona's Immigration Reform Steven Barnes 2010
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Give me your tired, your poor, ⨠your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, ⨠The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. ⨠Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me. â¨I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Brian Levin, J.D.: Our Gift of Religious Tolerance Must Be Shared by All Americans J.D. Brian Levin 2010
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Emma Lazarus's Statue of Liberty sonnet famously welcomes "homeless, tempest-tost" newcomers, while Jimmy Santiago Baca tallies harsh realities that sometimes follow that greeting.
4th Of July Poems: The Best Poetry To Celebrate Independence Day 2010
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