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  • Schooling its half-fledg’d little ones to brush130

    Endymion 1884

  • Why, how now, Governour? how now, Signior _Tickletext_! prithee how camest thou so transmogrified, ha? why, thou look'st like any new-fledg'd _Cupid_.

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II Aphra Behn 1664

  • Later ​ he and his frien ​ ds helpi ​ ng inven ​ t the fledg ​ ling rock busin ​ ess came up with the idea of Collective ​ Consc ​ ience ​, ​ ​ a compa ​ ny that would ​ teach ​ corpo ​ ratio ​ ns how to keep rock cultu ​ re pure. ​ ​

    The Tripwire 2008

  • So Atticus tells us, configebat tar - dus celeres, 8$c The shafts he sent return'd well-fledg'd with prey To their disabled owner as he lay;

    Cicero's Five Books De Finibus: Or, Concerning the Last Object of Desire and Aversion 1812

  • A PLOT DISCO VER'D i6s To cuff down new-fledg*d virtues, that would rife To nobler heights, and make the grove harmonious.

    Plays: Viz. The Orphan, and Venice Preserv'd 1767

  • ­ble assertion that Palestine would be a full-fledg­ed state today if its leaders had simply negotiated with Israel.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Ben S. Cohen 2010

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