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Shift in the World, 'till a vile Wretch, her Servant, overturn'd all; as follows.
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Their politics the United States have, in my opinion, with all their faults, already substantially establish'd, for good, on their own native, sound, long-vista'd principles, never to be overturn'd, offering a sure basis for all the rest.
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Their politics the United States have, in my opinion, with all their faults, already substantially establish'd, for good, on their own native, sound, long-vista'd principles, never to be overturn'd, offering a sure basis for all the rest.
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855
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Wind has only overturn'd the Trees without breaking the chief Root, then the best Method that can be taken in good Soil, is to raise them up again, and put them in their Places, propping them up with a Fork, and putting in the Earth about it very carefully: By this means they will be re-establish'd in less than six Months, and they will bear again as if no harm had come to them.
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However, it redoubled that Night with so much violence, that every Thing was not only shock'd, but seem'd to be overturn'd by it.
Pliny's Epistles in Ten Books: Volume 1, Books 1-6 Pliny 1723
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Disease rages with most Violence; so in this Distemper of the Mind, where there is ever a Propensity and Inclination to suck in the Poison, it cannot be but that the whole Order of reasonable Action must be overturn'd, for, like Musick, it
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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But the 8th day after our departure, our canoo being drawn ashore & overturn'd neer the water side, reposing ourselves in a small Island, about evening an Indian pursuing a Deere espyed our Canoo.
Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673
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Thereupon I went to that place to which my defiiny call'd me every moment whatever injuflice I there fuifercd, and I was no fooner in the Princefs's Antichamber, bujt I beheld the Stranger that had overturn'd my fortune.
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a brooch that hung on Crœsus's breast; nor did the scuffle end here, for the great candle being overturn'd on the table, broke all the chrystal glasses, and threw the scalding oil on the guests.
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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Each Greek was an Ulysses; such a dread The* approach and cv*n the sound of Hector h Him, flesh'd with slaughter, and with coon I met, and overturn'd him to the ground; [crow When after, matchless as he deem'd in might,
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