Citations:are

Verb

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Now was I in a strait, and did not see Which was the best thing to be done by me: At last I thought, Since you are thus divided, I print it will, and so the case decided.
 * Be not too forward, therefore, to conclude That I want solidness — that I am rude; All things solid in show not solid be; All things in parables despise not we; Lest things most hurtful lightly we receive, And things that good are, of our souls bereave.
 * Come, let my carper to his life now look, And find there darker lines than in my book He findeth any; yea, and let him know, That in his best things there are worse lines too.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * He turned it gently, and sidled his face in, round the door. They were looking at the table (which was spread out in great array); for these young housekeepers are always nervous on such points, and like to see that everything is right.
 * "You are?" repeated Scrooge. "Yes. I think you are. Step this way, sir, if you please."