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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
insheathe .
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Picture to yourself so many devils, all in glossy black feather coats and dark breeches, with waistcoats inclining to blue, pully-hawlying away at the unresisting figure of the follower of Fox, and getting first vexed and then irritated with the pieces of choking soft armour in which, five or six ply thick, his inviting carcass was so provokingly insheathed!
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819
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