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Spent

Weary. A hunting term. A deer is said to be spent when it stretches out its neck, and is at the point of death. In sea language, a broken mast is said to be “spent.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

Spheres

Spenserian Metre

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