Citations:steele

English citations of steele

• 1592/3, Thomas Nashe, The Choise of Valentines‎^[1] (Poetry), published 1899, →OCLC, archived from the original on February 27, 2006‎^[2]:

  Adieu! faint-hearted instrument of lust; / That falselie hath betrayde our equale trust. / Hence-forth no more will I implore thine ayde, / Or thee, or man of cowardize upbrayde. / My little dilldo shall suply their kinde: / A knaue, that moues as light as leaues by winde; / That bendeth not, nor fouldeth anie deale, / But stands as stiff as he were made of steele; / And playes at peacock twixt my leggs right blythe, / And doeth my tickling swage with manie a sighe. / For, by saint Runnion! he'le refresh me well; / And neuer make my tender bellie swell.

• 1601, Pliny, translated by P. Holland, Hist. World, II xxxiv xiv 514:

  The purest part thereof [of iron ore] which in Latine is called Nucleus ferri, i. the kernell or heart of the yron (and it is that which we call steele)

• 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 15:12:

  Shall yron breake the Northren yron, and the steele?

  (The Hebrew word is נחשת meaning copper. "Bow of steele" occurs in three places translating קשת נחושה.)

• c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], line 33:

  ...Like a man of Steele.