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Examples
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He inform'd me how this Piece of the Mast had stuck amongst those Boughs which bow'd down from the Rock,
Exilius 2008
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After this, they all three bow'd, and vanish'd, which greatly amazed me; for till then, I could not tell what to guess about their being cast away, they look'd so like true substantial Persons.
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Tree, whose Branches bow'd down to the Sea, by which I was caught by the
Exilius 2008
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After this, they all three bow'd, and vanish'd, which greatly amazed me; for till then, I could not tell what to guess about their being cast away, they look'd so like true substantial Persons.
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She chooses to probe this superstition further here, giving us to understand that "Fear" triggers this cycle of sacrifice, "Fear" that "bow'd before the phantoms she portray'd" (16).
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But first it bow'd an syne it brak and sae did my fause love tae me.
Waly, Waly 3 1962
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When we moved to go into the dining-parlour, Miss Winter bow'd for me to follow Lady Allen and her mother; which after I had declined, Lady Powis took me by the hand, and said, smiling, No, Madam, Miss Warley is one of us.
Barford Abbey Susannah Minific Gunning
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He bow'd, and in a moment leap'd among the lions wild: 20
The Ontario High School Reader A.E. Marty
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She never bow'd to ony, O! A land of heroes, famed an 'brave --
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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-- To-morrow, Mr. Molesworth, said her Ladyship, I bespeak the favour of your company and Lord Darcey's to dine with me in _Pall-Mall_: -- I bow'd, and answer'd both for his Lordship and myself.
Barford Abbey Susannah Minific Gunning
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