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Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary
11 archaic vocabulary words
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hind
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(2 different defs)
tags: [archaic] [zoology]
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Definition:1. a female deer 2 years old or older2. [archaic] a servant
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A hind might as well lay her new born young in the lair of a lion, and then go off to feed in the forest or in some grassy dell: the lion when he comes back to his lair will make short work with the pair of them—and so will Ulysses with these suitors.
Homer. The Odyssey (Butler translation)
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A YOUNG Hind, bereft of her much-loved fawns, and still having her udders full of milk, found two young wolves deserted in a forest, and immediately began to fulfil the sacred duty of a mother towards them, feeding them with her milk. A Dervish, who inhabited the same forest, astonished at this proceeding of hers, cried out—
"Imprudent creature that thou art! On what kind of animal art thou conferring thy milk?
Ivan Krylov.The Hind and the Dervish (Ralston translation, 1869)
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He called his hinds about him, and asked them, as I afterwards learned, whether they had ever seen in the fields any little creature that resembled me.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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and, I am persuaded, that my hind, Roger Williams, or any man of equal strength, would be able to push his foot through the strongest part of their walls, without any great exertion of his muscles.
Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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I became, at ten years old, a little labouring hind in the service of Murdstone and Grinby.
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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Ther nas Baillẏf . hierde, nor oother hẏne
That he ne knew, his sleẏghte, and his couẏne
Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales. p. 30
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales
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It had borne all the ships whose names are like jewels flashing in the night of time, from the Golden Hind* returning with her round flanks full of treasure, to be visited by the Queen's Highness and thus pass out of the gigantic tale, to the Erebus and Terror, bound on other conquests—and that never returned.
*yeah, a ships name in this case...
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