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Meads

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Meads [miːdz]
n
(Biographies / Meads, Colin (1935 M, New Zealand, SPORT AND GAMES: rugby union player) Colin. born 1935, New Zealand Rugby Union footballer. A forward, he played for the All Blacks (1957-71)
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Thence she started on foot, basket in hand, to reach the wide upland of heath dividing this district from the low-lying meads of a further valley in which the dairy stood that was the aim and end of her day's pilgrimage.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
Spite of this frigid winter night in the boisterous Atlantic, spite of my wet feet and wetter jacket, there was yet, it then seemed to me, many a pleasant haven in store; and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
It was as though he had sailed for many years over a great waste of waters, with peril and privation, and at last had come upon a fair haven, but as he was about to enter, some contrary wind had arisen and drove him out again into the open sea; and because he had let his mind dwell on these soft meads and pleasant woods of the land, the vast deserts of the ocean filled him with anguish.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
 
 
 
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