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Compar'd to which, the Sun's bright Rays are Night.
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Compar'd to her, what was Ariadne or Lyda? what Helen, or even Venus?
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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However, this much must be said against it, that it is not near so Rich nor fertile as the lands we have seen to the Southward; and the same may be said of its inhabitants, who, although pretty numerous, are poor to the highest degree when Compar'd to others we have seen.
Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World James Cook 1753
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Compar'd with Natural Philosophy, Considerations About the Excellency and Grounds of the Mechanical Hypothesis, the Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Receiv'd Notion of Nature, the
Sticky Wants to Grab 2009
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Compar'd with which the mangling knife would plcafc,
A select collection of poems; with notes, biographical and historical .. 1780
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Compar'd with whofc extent, this low-hung balK, 75
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592: Compar'd with aught on Earth, Medal or Stone;
Paradise Lost (1667) 1667
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Compar'd Mr. Pemberton to Elijah; Mr. Brattle to Moses.
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Compar'd, half-reas*ning elephant, with thine t Twixt that, and reafon, what a nice barrier}
Poems, Moral, Elegant and Pathetic: Vis. Essay on Man Alexander Pope , Helen Maria Williams 1796
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