Verses in example sentence

For seest thou, with us at present it is well to write verses, to sing to a lute, to declaim, and to compete in the Circus; but better, and especially safer, not to write verses, not to play, not to sing, and not to compete in the Circus.

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"Some of these verses are definite in meaning," it says, "and others are ambiguous."

I'd like to end with a few verses of what I wrote at my father's cremation.

I've described it as a kind of projectile vomiting, a torrent of ideas, of characters, of voices, of verses, couplets, entire songs almost formed whole, materialized in front of me as if they'd been bottled up inside me for many, many years.

He recites verses from the Koran, begging his God to live.

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