Example sentences of "[vb base] 'd " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tuneful Virgins cry 'd : |
| 2 | Happy , I cry 'd , are those who Leisure find , |
| 3 | Transform 'd to Birds , my lost Companions fly : |
| 4 | Doubtless many poets envied Duck , for whom the queen had ‘ Enlarg 'd thy Bottle , and enrich 'd thy Beer ’ . |
| 5 | Such a setting , as Coleridge acknowledges in the poem , he might once have sought out to echo the mood of a ‘ sad gloom-pamper 'd Man ’ ; but now his descriptions of the sea breeze moaning through the house , the thunder of the ‘ onward-surging tides ’ and the watchfire shining out from Flat Holm in the Bristol Channel , are powerfully transformed by the central fact of his love for Sara , and become part of a vast natural counterpoint to intimate and far from gloomy thoughts . |
| 6 | Hath rotted ere his youth attain 'd a beard ; |
| 7 | Thy Toil is lessen 'd , and thy Profits double . |
| 8 | Home they brought her warrior dead ; She nor swoon 'd nor utter 'd cry , All her maidens , watching , said ‘ She must weep or she will die ’ . |
| 9 | So in the third and last soliloquy Richard reminds us of his concealed plot , his ‘ deep intent ’ to kill Clarence — deep to the rest of the world , visible to us and tells us of his further plan to marry Lady Anne ( ‘ What though I kill 'd her husband and her father ? ’ ) . |
| 10 | The Body being thus equipp 'd and laid in the Coffin ( which Coffin is sometimes very magnificent ) , it is visited a second time to see that it is bury 'd in Flannel , and that nothing about it sowed with Thread . |
| 11 | Or deem 'd an Idiot , ever speaks the Wrong : |
| 12 | I oft converse with those she 's deem 'd to grace |
| 13 | And gave you Beauty , but deny 'd the Pelf |
| 14 | But however , it raised my Curiosity very much : And happening to meet with her a Day or two afterwards , I begg 'd the Favour of seeing it ; which was readily granted . |
| 15 | And best distinguish 'd by black , brown , or fair |
| 16 | One typical Whig satire of 1710 had Louis XIV thanking the Tories for coming to his rescue just as he was losing the war , saying " your very Principles are agreeable to absolute Monarchy , and Designs of Tyranny ; and your Practices are … such as have often reliev 'd and supported me " . |
| 17 | When-e'er you mow 'd I follow 'd with the Rake , |
| 18 | Which hatch 'd would as his kind grow mischievous , |
| 19 | member of the US Congress whom Martin Chuzzlewit meets on board the steamboat returning from Eden , a chauvinistic windbag celebrated for a speech called ‘ the Pogram Defiance ’ which , Martin is informed by another passenger , ‘ defied the world in general to com-pete with our country upon any hook ; and develop 'd our internal resources for making war upon the universal airth ’ . |
| 20 | Amphion led the ravish 'd Stones |
| 21 | Here a gay Prospect meets the ravish 'd Eye : |
| 22 | They ski 'd and sailed and rode and shot . |
| 23 | On the swampy willow scrub of the Wealdmoors in Shropshire , the local rector described in 1673 how ‘ the inhabitants commonly hang 'd bells about the necks of their cows that they might the more easily find them ’ . |
| 24 | The Body being thus equipp 'd and laid in the Coffin ( which Coffin is sometimes very magnificent ) , it is visited a second time to see that it is bury 'd in Flannel , and that nothing about it sowed with Thread . |
| 25 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
| 26 | ‘ A sailor 's wife had chestnuts in her lap , / And munch 'd and munch 'd and munch'd. / ‘ Give me' ’ quoth I. / ‘ ‘ Aroint thee , witch ! ' ’ the rump-fed ronyon cries . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ A sailor 's wife had chestnuts in her lap , / And munch 'd and munch 'd and munch'd. / ‘ Give me' ’ quoth I. / ‘ ‘ Aroint thee , witch ! ' ’ the rump-fed ronyon cries . ’ |
| 28 | Who look 'd on Beauty with a careless Eye , |
| 29 | Look 'd at each other with a wild surmise — |
| 30 | ‘ Soft eyes look 'd love to eyes which spake again . ’ ’ |