Hamlet vocabulary

Robert Browning. The Lost Leader

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A very riband in the cap of youth,

William Shakespeare. Hamlet

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‘Come, come!’ I repeated. ‘I’ll tie the riband. Now, let us have no petulance. Oh, for shame! You thirteen years old, and such a baby!’

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)

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"[...] the one who wears a shawl, and has a pocket-handkerchief tied to her side with a yellow ribband, is Madame Pierrot: she comes from Lisle, in France, and teaches French.”