Difference between peary and pear
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noun
- United States Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920)
Examples
But where the blue clay aboundeth (which hardly drinketh up the winter's water in long season) there the grass is speary, rough, and very apt for bushes: by which occasion it becometh nothing so profitable unto the owner as the other.
Its showery, arrowy, speary sleet pierceth one thro and thro,
Why, when I come to you, I don't forever feel it rising up with a thousand speary heads that shut you out; it drowns in your presence; the surface is cool and clear, and I can look down, down, into the very heart of my sin, like that strange lake we looked into one day, -- do you remember it?
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noun
- Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties
- sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties
Examples
My generation was raised on a diet of stultifyingly tedious, but worthy accounts of embryology, typically very badly printed on what appeared to be rice paper.
He watched them disappear from his view, his father still waddling along with that bloody basket.
Pearce , a Zimbabwean architect living in Melbourne, has been inspired by the humble termite.
