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  • It was now nightfall, and as I stood there at the roadside in the deepen - ing gloom, watching the blank outlines of the reced - ing wagon, a sound was borne to me on the evening wind -- a sound as of a series of vigorous thumps

    Can Such Things Be Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1909

  • Delivered me in the Presence of a Notary Publick that he might give faith thereof, I Confess myself to be contented, Satisfied and to have my intire Satisfaction, reced.

    Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898

  • Him on môd bearn, þät heal-reced hâtan wolde, medo-ärn micel men gewyrcean,

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • Meodu-scencum hwearf geond þät reced Häreðes dôhtor: lufode þâ leóde, lîð-wæge bär hælum tô handa.

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • Meodu-scencum hwearf geond þæt reced Hæreðes dōhtor: lufode þā lēode, līð-wǣge bær hǣlum tō handa.

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • Þā wæs hāten hreðe Heort innan-weard folmum gefrætwod: fela þǣra wæs wera and wīfa, þē þæt wīn-reced,

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • Þâ wäs hâten hreðe Heort innan-weard folmum gefrätwod: fela þæra wäs wera and wîfa, þe þät wîn-reced,

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • Him on mōd bearn, þæt heal-reced hātan wolde, medo-ærn micel men gewyrcean,

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • I would have reced a fatal and irrivocable doom, Friend Jacob.

    Franklin County: Eliza R. Stouffer to Anna Hoover, December 20, 1861 Eliza R. Stouffer 1861

  • I reced a note from your cousin Anne yesterday through Mr. Craig which believe me I esteemed very much

    Augusta County: Tony Pastor to Annie Harris, June 10, 1861 Tony Pastor 1861

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