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Word: swanged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1933-1933
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...wife and daughter are shamed and frightened out of their wits and into their true selves by the silent gaze of a mysterious beggar. Poet de la Mare loves not only poetic language and tricks of speech, but poetic words as well: whist, clomb, darnelled. He writes swang instead of swung because he likes the sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gossamer & Ghosts | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

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