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She feared that a beloved niece, Polly, would never escape the bonds of home and family in London to return to shop-keeping in Boston, but Polly allayed those anxieties: "The spirit of independence you cherish'd in me," she wrote, "is not yet extinct."
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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Not for a cherish'd gem's clarity, lucid of hue.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Not for a cherish'd gem's clarity, lucid of hue.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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No more I shall gaze on the face that I cherish'd.
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If the Sun shin'd too hot and scorch'd him, she shaded him; if he was cold she cherish'd him and kept him warm; and when Night came she brought him home to his old Place, and covered him partly with her own Body, and partly with some Feathers which were left in the Ark, which had been put in with him when he was first expos'd.
The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufail
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Nor dreads that time her cherish'd pride may quell.
The Flower Basket A Fairy Tale Unknown
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The glow of youth still cherish'd in the sober breast of age;
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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But, ah! there were hearts cherish'd far other feelings --
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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And planted shrubs are there, and cherish'd flowers,
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman
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Which gleams, but warms no more its cherish'd earth!
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