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dews

n. (context archaic or poetic English) (plural of dew English)

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Dews

Dews is a surname, and may refer to:

  • Bobby Dews (1939-2015), American baseball player
  • George Dews (1921–2003), English cricketer and footballer
  • Ian Dews (born 1964), English cricketer
  • John Dews (1945-1995), British motorcycle speedway rider
  • Peter Dews (born 1952), British philosopher
  • Peter Dews (director) (1929–1997), English stage director

Usage examples of "dews".

Droops in the smile of the waning moon, When it scatters through an April night The frozen dews of wrinkling blight.

PURGANAX: Gentlemen Boars, I move a resolution, That her most sacred Majesty should be Invited to attend the feast of Famine, And to receive upon her chaste white body Dews of Apotheosis from this BAG.

Or the dews fall, or the angry sun look down With poisoned light--Famine, and Pestilence, And Panic, shall wage war upon our side!

No leaf will be shaken Whilst the dews of your melody scatter Delight.

To feed with kindliest dews its favourite flower, That blooms in mossy banks and darksome glens, Lighting the greenwood with its sunny smile.

With budding, fading, faded flowers, They stand the wonder of the bowers From morn to evening dews, He told of the Magnolia, spread High as a cloud, high over head!

The sweet dews to feed thee, the soft wind to cheer, And the earth as a pleasant home, while thou art dwelling here.

Where her feet, rosy as a shell, have grazed The freshened grass, a richer emerald glows: Into each flower-cup Her cool dews she distills.

So have I slept beneath The naked heavens, pillowed by a stone, With no more shelter than the wind-stirred branches, While the thick dews of our Valencian nights Drenched my rude weeds, and chilled through blood and bone.

Dawn dews and starlit seas, White marbles, whiter words - To live, I think of these!

The stars some cadence use, Forthright the river flows, In order fall the dews, Love blows as the wind blows: Blows!

Working through wicked airs and deadly dews That make the laden robber grin askance At the good places in his black romance, And the poor, loitering harlot rather choose Go pinched and pined to bed Than lurk and shiver and curse her wretched way From arch to arch, scouting some threepenny prey.

And the loneliest death is fair with a memory of her flowers, And the end of the road to Hell with the sense of her dews and showers!

Then, speeding through the evening dews, A dozen lighted windows glide-- The East-bound flyer for New York, Soft as a magic-lantern slide.