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Search phrase: lass

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101 result(s). alternate result(s)

Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
All's Well That Ends Well	AW II.i.165	Or four-and-twenty times the pilot's glass	Or foure and twenty times the Pylots glasse
All's Well That Ends Well	AW III.vi.104.1	The lass I spoke of.	The Lasse I spoke of.
Antony and Cleopatra	AC V.ii.315	A lass unparalleled. Downy windows, close;	A Lasse vnparalell'd. Downie Windowes cloze,
As You Like It	AYL III.v.54	'Tis not her glass but you that flatters her,	'Tis not her glasse, but you that flatters her,
As You Like It	AYL V.i.41	of a cup into a glass, by filling the one doth empty the	of a cup into a glasse, by filling the one, doth empty the
As You Like It	AYL V.iii.15	It was a lover and his lass,	It was a Louer, and his lasse,
The Comedy of Errors	CE V.i.418	Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother.	Me thinks you are my glasse, & not my brother:
Coriolanus	Cor III.ii.117	The glasses of my sight! A beggar's tongue	The Glasses of my sight: A Beggars Tongue
Cymbeline	Cym I.i.49	A glass that feated them, and to the graver	A glasse that feated them: and to the grauer,
Cymbeline	Cym IV.i.8	for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber;	for a man, and his Glasse, to confer in his owne Chamber;
Hamlet	Ham II.i.65	With windlasses and with assays of bias,	With windlesses, and with assaies of Bias,
Hamlet	Ham III.i.154	The glass of fashion and the mould of form,	The glasse of Fashion, and the mould of Forme,
Hamlet	Ham III.iv.20	You go not till I set you up a glass	You go not till I set you vp a glasse,
Hamlet	Ham IV.vii.167	That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.	That shewes his hore leaues in the glassie streame:
Henry IV Part 2	2H4 II.i.142	Glasses, glasses, is the only drinking; and for	Glasses, glasses, is the onely drinking: and for
Henry IV Part 2	2H4 II.iii.21	To do brave acts. He was indeed the glass	To do braue Acts. He was (indeed) the Glasse
Henry IV Part 2	2H4 II.iii.31	He was the mark and glass, copy and book,	He was the Marke, and Glasse, Coppy, and Booke,
Henry V	H5 I.chorus.31	Into an hour-glass: for the which supply,	Into an Howre-glasse: for the which supplie,
Henry V	H5 V.ii.147	never looks in his glass for love of anything he sees	neuer lookes in his Glasse, for loue of any thing he sees
Henry VI Part 1	1H6 IV.ii.35	For ere the glass that now begins to run	For ere the Glasse that now begins to runne,
Henry VI Part 1	1H6 V.iii.62	As plays the sun upon the glassy streams,	As playes the Sunne vpon the glassie streames,
Henry VI Part 2	2H6 III.ii.330	And these dread curses, like the sun 'gainst glass,	And these dread curses like the Sunne 'gainst glasse,
Henry VI Part 2	2H6 IV.ix.26	Of gallowglasses and stout kerns	Of Gallow-glasses and stout Kernes,
Henry VI Part 2	2H6 V.i.142	Look in a glass and call thy image so;	Looke in a Glasse, and call thy Image so.
Henry VIII	H8 I.i.166	That swallowed so much treasure, and like a glass	That swallowed so much treasure, and like a glasse
Julius Caesar	JC I.ii.68	So well as by reflection, I, your glass,	So well as by Reflection; I your Glasse,
Julius Caesar	JC I.ii.270	‘Alas, good soul!' and forgave him with all their hearts;	Alasse good Soule, and forgaue him with all their hearts:
Julius Caesar	JC II.i.205	And bears with glasses, elephants with holes,	And Beares with Glasses, Elephants with Holes,
King Edward III	E3 I.i.78	That set a gloss upon his arrogance.	That sett a glasse vpon his arrogannce,
King Edward III	E3 II.i.116	Like to a flattering glass, doth make more fair	Like to a flattering glas doth make more faire,
King Edward III	E3 II.i.117	The yellow amber. – ‘ Like a flattering glass ’	The yelow Amber like a flattering glas,
King Edward III	E3 II.i.119	I'll say that like a glass they catch the sun,	Ile say that like a glas they catch the sunne,
King Lear	KL II.ii.16	whoreson glass-gazing super-serviceable finical	whoreson glasse-gazing super-seruiceable finicall
King Lear	KL III.ii.36	in a glass.	in a glasse.
King Lear	KL IV.vi.171	To seal th' accuser's lips. Get thee glass eyes,	to seale th'accusers lips. Get thee glasse-eyes,
King Lear	KL V.iii.259	She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking-glass;	She's dead as earth: Lend me a Looking-glasse,
Love's Labour's Lost	LLL II.i.230	Who, tendering their own worth from where they were glassed,	Who tendring their own worth from whence they were glast,
Love's Labour's Lost	LLL IV.i.18	Here, good my glass, take this for telling true;	Here (good my glasse) take this for telling true:
Love's Labour's Lost	LLL IV.iii.37	My tears for glasses and still make me weep.	My teares for glasses, and still make me weepe.
Love's Labour's Lost	LLL V.ii.551	And lay my arms before the legs of this sweet lass of France.	And lay my Armes before the legs of this sweet Lasse of France.
Macbeth	Mac I.ii.13	Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied,	Of Kernes and Gallowgrosses is supply'd,
Macbeth	Mac IV.i.110.2	a glass in his hand	a glasse in his hand
Macbeth	Mac IV.i.118	And yet the eighth appears, who bears a glass	And yet the eighth appeares, who beares a glasse,
Measure for Measure	MM II.ii.95	Looks in a glass that shows what future evils,	Lookes in a glasse that shewes what future euils
Measure for Measure	MM II.ii.120	His glassy essence, like an angry ape	(His glassie Essence) like an angry Ape
Measure for Measure	MM II.iv.125	Ay, as the glasses where they view themselves,	I, as the glasses where they view themselues,
The Merchant of Venice	MV I.i.25	I should not see the sandy hour-glass run	I should not see the sandie houre-glasse runne,
The Merchant of Venice	MV I.ii.90	deep glass of Rhenish wine on the contrary casket, for if	deepe glasse of Reinish-wine on the contrary Casket, for if
The Merry Wives of Windsor	MW I.iii.62	seem to scorch me up like a burning-glass. Here's	seeme to scorch me vp like a burning-glasse: here's
A Midsummer Night's Dream	MND I.i.210	Her silver visage in the watery glass,	Her siluer visage, in the watry glasse,
A Midsummer Night's Dream	MND II.ii.104	What wicked and dissembling glass of mine	What wicked and dissembling glasse of mine,
Pericles	Per I.i.77	Fair glass of light, I loved you, and could still,	Faire Glasse of light, I lou'd you, and could still,
Pericles	Per I.iv.27	Like one another's glass to trim them by;	Like one anothers glasse to trim them by,
Pericles	Per II.i.5	Alas, the seas hath cast me on the rocks,	Alasse, the Seas hath cast me on the Rocks,
Pericles	Per II.i.20	Alas, poor souls, it grieved my heart	Alasse poore soules, it grieued my heart
Pericles	Per II.iii.36	To me he seems like diamond to glass.	To mee he seemes like Diamond, to Glasse.
Pericles	Per IV.vi.140	Crack the glass of her virginity, and make the rest	crack the glasse of her virginitie, and make the rest
Richard II	R2 I.iii.208	Uncle, even in the glasses of thine eyes	Vncle, euen in the glasses of thine eyes
Richard II	R2 IV.i.267	Go some of you, and fetch a looking-glass.	Goe some of you, and fetch a Looking-Glasse.
Richard II	R2 IV.i.268	Read o'er this paper while the glass doth come.	Read o're this Paper, while ye Glasse doth come.
Richard II	R2 IV.i.275	Enter attendant with a glass	Enter one with a Glasse.
Richard II	R2 IV.i.275	Give me that glass, and therein will I read.	Giue me that Glasse, and therein will I reade.
Richard II	R2 IV.i.278	And made no deeper wounds? O, flattering glass,	And made no deeper Wounds? Oh flatt'ring Glasse,
Richard II	R2 IV.i.288.1	(he throws the glass down)
Richard III	R3 I.i.15	Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;	Nor made to court an amorous Looking-glasse:
Richard III	R3 I.ii.255	I'll be at charges for a looking-glass	Ile be at Charges for a Looking-glasse,
Richard III	R3 I.ii.262	Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass,	Shine out faire Sunne, till I haue bought a glasse,
Richard III	R3 II.ii.53	And I for comfort have but one false glass	And I for comfort, haue but one false Glasse,
Richard III	R3 IV.ii.60	Or else my kingdom stands on brittle glass.	Or else my Kingdome stands on brittle Glasse:
The Taming of the Shrew	TS induction.1.6	You will not pay for the glasses you have burst?	You will not pay for the glasses you haue burst?
The Taming of the Shrew	TS II.i.230.2	Had I a glass, I would.	Had I a glasse, I would.
The Tempest	Tem I.ii.240	At least two glasses. The time 'twixt six and now	At least two Glasses: the time 'twixt six & now
The Tempest	Tem III.i.50	Save, from my glass, mine own. Nor have I seen	Saue from my glasse, mine owne: Nor haue I seene
The Tempest	Tem III.ii.104.2	Is it so brave a lass?	Is it so braue a Lasse?
The Tempest	Tem IV.i.68	Being lass-lorn: thy pole-clipt vineyard,	Being lasse-lorne: thy pole-clipt vineyard,
The Tempest	Tem V.i.223	Which, but three glasses since, we gave out split –	Which but three glasses since, we gaue out split,
Timon of Athens	Tim I.i.60	All sorts of hearts; yea, from the glass-faced flatterer	All sorts of hearts; yea, from the glasse-fac'd Flatterer
Troilus and Cressida	TC I.ii.285	Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be.	Then in the glasse of Pandar's praise may be;
Troilus and Cressida	TC II.iii.154	Pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own	Pride is his owne Glasse, his owne trumpet, his owne
Troilus and Cressida	TC III.ii.46	picture. Alas the day, how loath you are to offend	picture. Alasse the day, how loath you are to offend
Troilus and Cressida	TC III.iii.47	It may do good: pride hath no other glass	It may doe good, pride hath no other glasse
Twelfth Night	TN III.iv.371	Yet living in my glass. Even such and so	Yet liuing in my glasse: euen such, and so
Twelfth Night	TN V.i.262	If this be so, as yet the glass seems true,	If this be so, as yet the glasse seemes true,
The Two Gentlemen of Verona	TG IV.iv.149	But since she did neglect her looking-glass	But since she did neglect her looking-glasse,
The Two Gentlemen of Verona	TG IV.iv.189	Her eyes are grey as glass, and so are mine;	Her eyes are grey as glasse, and so are mine.:
The Two Noble Kinsmen	TNK I.i.90	The tenor of thy speech; dear glass of ladies,	The Tenour of the Speech. Deere Glasse of Ladies
The Two Noble Kinsmen	TNK I.i.112	Like wrinkled pebbles in a glassy stream,	Like wrinckled peobles in a glasse streame
The Two Noble Kinsmen	TNK I.ii.55	To such a favourite's glass? What canon is there	To such a Favorites glasse: What Cannon is there
The Two Noble Kinsmen	TNK III.i.70	Speak this and act it in your glass as to	Speake this, and act it in your Glasse, as to
The Two Noble Kinsmen	TNK III.v.90.2	Come, lass, lets trip it.	Come Lasse, lets trip it.
The Two Noble Kinsmen	TNK V.i.18	The glass is running now that cannot finish	The glasse is running now that cannot finish
The Two Noble Kinsmen	TNK V.i.109	A lass of fourteen brided. 'Twas thy power	A Lasse of foureteene brided, twas thy power
The Winter's Tale	WT I.ii.117	As in a looking-glass; and then to sigh, as 'twere	As in a Looking-Glasse; and then to sigh, as 'twere
The Winter's Tale	WT I.ii.268	But that's past doubt, you have, or your eye-glass	(But that's past doubt: you haue, or your eye-glasse
The Winter's Tale	WT I.ii.306.1	The running of one glass.	The running of one Glasse.
The Winter's Tale	WT IV.i.16	I turn my glass, and give my scene such growing	I turne my glasse, and giue my Scene such growing
The Winter's Tale	WT IV.iv.14.1	To show myself a glass.	To shew my selfe a glasse.
The Winter's Tale	WT IV.iv.156	This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever	This is the prettiest Low-borne Lasse, that euer
The Winter's Tale	WT IV.iv.231	Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry: Come buy.	Buy Lads, or else your Lasses cry: Come buy.
The Winter's Tale	WT IV.iv.349	And nothing marted with him. If your lass	And nothing marted with him. If your Lasse
The Winter's Tale	WT IV.iv.595	glass, pomander, brooch, table-book, ballad, knife, tape,	Glasse, Pomander, Browch, Table-booke, Ballad, Knife, Tape,

Poems

23 result(s).

Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
The Passionate Pilgrim	PP.7.3	Brighter than glass, and yet, as glass is, brittle;	Brighter then glasse, and yet as glasse is brittle,
The Passionate Pilgrim	PP.13.4	A brittle glass that's broken presently;	A brittle glasse, that s broken presently.
The Passionate Pilgrim	PP.13.5	A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,	A doubtfull good, a glosse, a glasse, a flower,
The Passionate Pilgrim	PP.13.10	As broken glass no cement can redress:	As broken glasse no symant can redresse.
The Passionate Pilgrim	PP.17.33	Farewell, sweet lass, thy like ne'er was	Farewell sweet loue thy like nere was,
The Rape of Lucrece	Luc.102	Writ in the glassy margents of such books:	Writ in the glassie margents of such bookes,
The Rape of Lucrece	Luc.615	For princes are the glass, the school, the book,	For Princes are the glasse, the schoole, the booke,
The Rape of Lucrece	Luc.619	Wilt thou be glass wherein it shall discern	Wilt thou be glasse wherein it shall discerne
The Rape of Lucrece	Luc.1526	When their glass fell, wherein they viewed their faces.	Whẽ their glas fel, wherin they view'd their faces.
The Rape of Lucrece	Luc.1758	‘ Poor broken glass, I often did behold	Poore broken glasse, I often did behold
The Rape of Lucrece	Luc.1763	And shivered all the beauty of my glass,	And shiuerd all the beautie of my glasse,
Sonnets	Sonn.3.1	Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest	LOoke in thy glasse and tell the face thou vewest,
Sonnets	Sonn.3.9	Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee	Thou art thy mothers glasse and she in thee
Sonnets	Sonn.5.10	A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,	A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glasse,
Sonnets	Sonn.22.1	My glass shall not persuade me I am old,	MY glasse shall not perswade me I am ould,
Sonnets	Sonn.62.9	But when my glass shows me myself indeed,	But when my glasse shewes me my selfe indeed
Sonnets	Sonn.77.1	Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear,	THy glasse will shew thee how thy beauties were,
Sonnets	Sonn.77.5	The wrinkles which thy glass will truly show	The wrinckles which thy glasse will truly show,
Sonnets	Sonn.103.6	Look in your glass, and there appears a face	Looke in your glasse and there appeares a face,
Sonnets	Sonn.103.14	Your own glass shows you, when you look in it.	Your owne glasse showes you, when you looke in it.
Sonnets	Sonn.126.2	Dost hold Time's fickle glass, his sickle, hour;	Doest hould times fickle glasse, his sickle, hower:
Venus and Adonis	Ven.980	Being prisoned in her eye like pearls in glass;	Being prisond in her eye: like pearles in glasse,
Venus and Adonis	Ven.1129	Two glasses, where herself herself beheld	Two glasses where her selfe, her selfe beheld

Glossary

36 result(s).

authority	those in authority, the ruling class
blowze	red-faced lass
bona-roba	high-class prostitute, good quality bit of stuff
bugle-bracelet	bracelet adorned with ornamental tube-shaped glass beads
cancel	[unclear word-class] put an end to, wipe out
counsel	[unclear word-class] put an end to, wipe out
curtle-axe	cutlass, cutting sword
difference	class difference, distinction of rank
eye-glass	lens of the eye
galloglass	axe-wielding Irish soldier
generation	breed, class, pedigree
glass	mirror, looking-glass
glass	[sand of the] hourglass
glass	eyeball
glass	magic mirror, crystal ball
glass	enclose in glass
glass eyes	spectacles
glass-faced	mirror-faced, self-reflecting
glass-gazing	admiring oneself in the mirror
glassy	[unclear meaning] frail as glass, brittle; or: mirroring, reflecting [divinity]
glassy	as if made of glass, translucent
individable	indivisible [with no changes in the location of action]; or: unclassifiable
lass-lorn	jilted, forsaken by a sweetheart
lecture	classroom lesson
predicament	category, class, division
primitive	original, classical, typical
rank	place, class, put down
right	typical, true, classic
sect	class, kind, sort
sort	class, level, social rank
sort	place, classify, put in the same class
spectacle	fit with spectacles, give glasses
spectacles	eye-glasses
strike	[unclear meaning] tap the casks; fill the cups; clink the glasses; bang the drums
wench	girl, lass
windlass	circuit made to intercept game while hunting; roundabout way

Thesaurus

31 result(s).

bracelet adorned with ornamental tube-shaped glass beads	bugle-bracelet
class	generation
class	predicament
class	rank
class	sect
class	sort
class difference	difference
classic	right
classical	primitive
classify	sort
classroom lesson	lecture
clink the glasses	strike
cutlass	curtle-axe
difference, class	difference
enclose in glass	glass
eye-glasses	spectacles
frail as glass	glassy
glass, enclose in	glass
glass, frail as	glassy
glass, made of	glassy
glasses, clink the	strike
glasses, give	spectacle
hourglass [sand of the]	glass
lass	wench
lass, red-faced	blowze
lesson, classroom	lecture
looking-glass	glass
red-faced lass	blowze
ruling class	authority
same class, put in the	sort
unclassifiable	individable

Themes and Topics

63 result(s).

a- as a particle
Address forms	...times applied inappropriately by lower classes e g to a sergeant or yeoman] ... ...pero to miranda [father to daughter] lass girl [affectionate to wife daughter ...
An
Archaisms
Attention signals
Body-armour
Clothing
Comparison
Cosmos
Cousin
Discourse markers
Elision
Exclamations
Family
Farewells
Functional shift	...on of new words by changing their word class or part of speech - a process variousl... ...usly known as functional shift or word-class conversion in shakespearean english th... ...creations virtually any word class can be converted and the texts show ex...
Greetings
Hence, thence, and whence
Here, there, and where
Hither, thither, and whither
How and how
Humours	...umours of blood / he was the mark and glass copy and book / that fashioned others...
Ly
Money
Negatives
Numbers
Past tenses	...re there were several distinctive verb classes a related form seen in i have as... ...a conventional way of referring to the class as a whole whether regular or irregula...
Plants	... poeticus associated with narcissus classical mythology oxlip mnd ii ...
Plurals
Politeness
Regrets
Responses
Roman history	... encountered whenever writers refer to classical rome and there is no difference be...
Ships
Singing
Sounds
Stage directions
Swearing	...tian god is replaced by members of the classical pantheon in terms of formal constr...
Thou and you	...g god and it was usual when the lower classes talked to each other upper c... ...es talked to each other upper classes used you to each other as a rule ev...
Verb forms
Weapons	...sword used for slashing and cutting cutlass dagger ham v ii 143 [as ...
What and what
Who and who
Withal and withal
Yon words
Classical mythology	...in two noble kinsmen amazon in non-classical legend thetis per iv iv...
Gods and goddesses
Non-classical legend, romance, and folklore
Religious personalities and beings
Historical figures
Contemporary figures, factual and fictitious
Days and dates
London
Britain [outside London]
World [outside Britain], places and peoples	...calydonian boar took place meleager in classical mythology candy tn v i ... ... sea and the sea of marmara leander in classical mythology hesperides e3...
French
Latin
Italian and Spanish
Irish
Scottish
Welsh
Frequently Encountered Words (FEW)	...rcy gentle (adj ) 2--5 (n ) (adv ) glass (n ) mirror looking-g... ... (n ) mirror looking-glass ce v i 418 [dromio of ephesus to dromi... ...romio of syracuse] methinks you are my glass cym iv i 7 [cloten alone] it is not va... ...it is not vain-glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber ham iii i... ...i i 154 [ophelia alone of hamlet] the glass of fashion g... ... of fashion glass (n ) 2--4 (v ) habit (n ) dress cloth... ...rrant (n ) 2--6 (n ) wench (n ) girl lass tem i ii 139 [prospero to miranda] wel...
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Words Families

20 result(s).

Word Family	Word Family Group	Words
BURN	INTENSITY	burning-glass n
EYE	PART	eye-glass n
FACE	BAD	glass-faced adj
GALLOWGLASS	BASIC	gallowglass n
GAZE	STATE	glass-gazing adj
GLASS	BASIC	glass n, glass v, glassy adj
GLASS	ACTION	glass-gazing adj
GLASS	APPEARANCE	glass-faced adj
GLASS	TYPE	burning-glass n, eye-glass n, hour-glass n, looking-glass n
HOUR	OBJECT	hour-glass n
LASS	BASIC	lass n
LASS	STATE	lass-lorn
LOOK	OBJECT	looking-glass n
LORN	BASIC	see LASS
WIND [turn]	ACTION	windlass n

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