Goe turne the Volumes over I have read, Eate and digest them, that they may grow in thee, Weare out the tedious night with thy dimme Lampe, And sooner lose the day than leave a doubt.
But stricken with feare in this dark vnlightsome place, notwithstanding the dimme burning lampe, I was more desirous to beholde and peruse that triumphant porch and gate as more lawfull to remaine there than other-where.
This is that cleare and perfect light, which sweetly and with our vnconstrained willes draweth our dimme sighted eies to contemplate and behold the same.
Ould as I am myne eyes are not so dimme But can discerne this without spectacles.
This reverend shadow cast that setting sun, 1 Whose glorious course through our horrizon run, Left the dimme face of this dull hemispheare, All one great eye, all drown'd in one great teare.
From farre We see you move, and here your Zani's are: So that no fountaine good there is, doth grow In you, but our dimme actions faintly shew.
Seeing you come as friends unto the frier, Resolve you, doctors, Bacon can by bookes Make storming Boreas thunder from his cave, 45 And dimme faire Luna to a darke eclipse.
Why are thine eyes fixt to the sullen earth, Gazing on that which seemes to dimme thy sight?
Seek none Conspiracie, Hide it in Smiles, and Affabilitie: For if thou path thy natiue semblance on, Not Erebus it selfe were dimme enough, To hide thee from preuention.
Innumerable numbers of fair Lamps Were rightly ranged in this hollow hole, To warm the world and chace the shady damps Of immense darknesse, rend her pitchie stole Into short rags more dustie dimme then coal.
It gives us the name and title of the king whose figure is engraved within it--'Tarqu-dimme king of the country of Erme.
Where the district was over which Tarqu-dimme ruled we can only guess.
The name Tarqu-dimme is evidently the same as that of the Cilician prince Tarkondemos or Tarkon-dimotos, who lived in the time of our Lord.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dimme" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
