A sudden commotion of mind.Įtymology: from the noun. When first it broke, the crowding ensigns saw The gates are open’d, the portcullis drawn,Ĭame pouring in: I heard the mighty flaw A tumult a tempestuous uproar.Īnd this fell tempest shall not cease to rage,ĭo calm the fury of this madbrain’d flaw. Was distant and these flaws, though mortals fear them,Īs dangerous to the pillar’d frame of heav’n, Shoots back so, sent against the ground, [fraid,īursting their brazen dungeon, arm’d with ice,Īnd snow, and hail, and stormy gust, and flaw,Īnd Thrascias rend the woods, and seas upturn.Īs earth and sky would mingle but myself Near to the cold weed-gathering shore, is with a north flaw Should patch a wall, t’ expel the Winter’s flaw. Oh, that that earth, which kept the world in awe, So many flaws had this vow in its first conception.įrancis Atterbury. Their judgment has found a flaw in what the generality of mankind admires. Yet certain though it be, it hath flaws for that the scriveners and brokers do value unsound men to serve their own turn.Ĭould we be certain such they were, so known:īut since some flaws in long descents may be, He that would keep his house in repair, must attend every little breach or flaw, and supply it immediately, else time alone will bring all to ruin. Whether the nymph shall break Diana’s law, Should gape immense, and, rushing down, o’erwhelm this nether ball. ’Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound.Īnd with a mighty flaw the flaming wall, as once it shall, We found it exceeding difficult to keep out the air from getting in at any imperceptible hole or flaw. Wool, new-shorn, being laid casually upon a vessel of verjuice, after some time had drunk up a great part of the verjuice, though the vessel were whole, without any flaw, and had not the bunghole open. This heart shall break into a thousand flaws, Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votesĮtymology: φλάω, to break floh, Saxon, a fragment flauw, Dutch, broken in mind.
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