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beck
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synonyms: rill, rivulet, floss ???
tags: [archaic]
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Definition:1. A command. Modern use is primarily limited to the phrase "to be at one's beck and call"2. [britain] A small brook, i.e. river
image: by Paul Gauguin, 1883
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these be they that are at every beck, at every nod, freemen by fortune, slaves by free will.
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in,
WIlliam Shakespeare. Hamlet.
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the full, mellow flow of the beck in the valley came soothingly on the ear.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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this pleasure consisted in prospect of noble summits girdling a great hill-hollow, rich in verdure and shadow; in a bright beck, full of dark stones and sparkling eddies.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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