Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] 'd " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or deem 'd an Idiot , ever speaks the Wrong : |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | … and from them rose A cry that shiver 'd to the tingling stars . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | Doubtless many poets envied Duck , for whom the queen had ‘ Enlarg 'd thy Bottle , and enrich 'd thy Beer ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Watts had earlier published The psalms of David Imitated in the Language of the New Testament , and Apply 'd to the Christian State and Worship before , others had followed . |
| 9 | He fought his doubts and gather 'd strength , |
| 10 | The poem is set in the night and opens with ‘ … lonely Mira with her Head reclin 'd , / And mourn 'd the Sorrows of her helpless Kind ’ [ vol. 1 , p. 273 ] . |
| 11 | And gave you Beauty , but deny 'd the Pelf |