Careful Words

sole (n.)

sole (v.)

sole (adj.)

Left that command

Sole daughter of his voice.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 652.

Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 1.

Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;

Still by himself abused or disabused;

Created half to rise, and half to fall;

Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;

Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,—

The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Man. Epistle ii. Line 13.

  The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.

Old Testament: Genesis viii. 9.

  From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 2.

From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot.

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627): A Mad World, my Masters. Act i. Sc. 3.

From the crown of the head to the sole of the foot.

Beaumont And Fletcher: The Honest Man's Fortune. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Lady of the Mere,

Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): A narrow Girdle of rough Stones and Crags.