Urg'd

Urg'd by th 'old man to speed; the crowd of friends

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1834

Promisses to take me in between twenty & thirty hhds. the Tobo. was got ready betimes but he went away without touching one of them, Fowler in the Content hath servd me very Scurvily, at his first coming in, I took forty hhds. possitively upon him afterwards he Urg'd me for ten more which I also promisd him & yet after

Letter from Robert Carter to John Pemberton, January 28, 1724 1724

Urg'd that, the Day he wrought her to this Sorrow,

Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions 1713

Urg'd him to keep his Word, and still he swore the same.

Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions 1713

Urg'd by this, a brother's joys Are aTbrother's facrifice*

The New foundling hospital for wit. Being a collection of fugitive pieces, in prose and verse, not in any other collection. With several pieces never before published 1786

Urg'd then strongly by her own desires, and embolden'd by me, she presently determined to risk a trial of parts with the idiot, who was by this time nobly inflam'd for her purpose, by all the irritations we had used to put the principles of pleasure effectually into motion, and to wind up the springs of its organ to their supreme pitch; and it stood accordingly stiff and straining, ready to burst with the blood and spirits that swelled it ... to a bulk!

Fanny Hill, Part IX (second letter) 1749

864: Urg'd them behind; headlong themselvs they threw

Paradise Lost (1667) 1667

Here the cowl'd zealots with united cries Urg'd the crufade; and fee, of half his (lores Defpoil'd the wretch, whofe wifer bofom chofe To blefs his friends, his race, his native land.

The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790

Urg'd by my wife, who w. 1 not fee deny "d, jo I prum it'll my Lavtnia for your bride;

The Works of the English Poets 1779