What is "thro'"

Usage examples of "thro'".

Eye, that is, doing the opposite of what it usually does when he peers thro' a Telescope.

Carefully, sensing the Tides thro' his Soles, he steers them further into the Obscurity.

Bellows to clear a Path thro' the Smoke, meantime calling out Names true and taken.

Matrix thro' which these Plumbaginous Orbs are distributed, proves to be of a peculiar sort, already familiar to you.

Peering thro' the Smoke, he recognizes Philip Dimdown, now as un-Macaronickal as possible, a serious young man upon a Mission whose end may not be predicted.

It was eventide, And far and wide Sweet silence crept thro' the rifts of sound With spells of sleep.

But the west was flushed Where sunset blushed, Thro' clouds of roses, when another slept And -- we were two.

That creeps thro' the sunny hair, And not by the scenes that we pass on our way, And not by the furrows the fingers of care On forehead and face have made.

I had but one regret -- That I was doomed to live and linger yet In this dark valley where the stream of tears Flows, and, in flowing, deepens thro' the years.

And down thro' all the shadows The star-gleams softly crept, And kissed, with lips all shining, The wavelets ere they slept.

And thro' the dark we grope along our ways With hearts fear-filled, and lips low-breathing sighs.

But ever since then a music deep, Like a stream thro' a shadow-land, floweth Under each thought of my spirit that groweth Into the blossom and bloom of speech -- Under each fancy that cometh and goeth -- Wayward, as waves when evening breeze bloweth Out of the sunset and into the beach.

God sings to man through all my rays That wreathe the brow of night, And walks with me thro' all my ways -- The everlasting light.

Two sweet-faced girls came walking Thro' my lonely home one day, And I overheard them talking Of an altar on their way.

Thoughts By sound of name, and touch of hand, Thro' ears that hear, and eyes that see, We know each other in this land, How little must that knowledge be?