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(The dome with forms of wildest beasts full cramm'd)
The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Henry Vane was the first, that I knew in that kind, who having a good dyet as Comptroller of the Houshold, and a tenuity of fortune, was winkt at; so as the Court was fill'd, not cramm'd.
Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various
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Into this he has cramm'd such uncommon monstrosities,
Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 1, July 31, 1841 Various
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With silk, and gold, and diamond, he cramm'd his hungry maw;
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various
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Just return'd from the steward's, so cramm'd with sweet-meats, cake, and jellies, that I am absolutely stupified.
Barford Abbey Susannah Minific Gunning
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A Mississippi of horses and rich vehicles, not by dozens and scores, but hundreds and thousands -- the broad avenue filled and cramm'd with them -- a moving, sparkling, hurrying crush, for more than two miles.
Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855
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A Mississippi of horses and rich vehicles, not by dozens and scores, but hundreds and thousands -- the broad avenue filled and cramm'd with them -- a moving, sparkling, hurrying crush, for more than two miles.
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855
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I tried to speak about something, and I cared very little what, until I choked up as bad as if my mouth had been jamm'd and cramm'd chock-full of dry mush.
David Crockett 1841
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They mount the hulk, and, cramm'd within the cave,
The Columbiad Joel Barlow 1783
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I was quite sick with delight! stir'd beyond bearing with its furious agitations within me, and gorged and cramm'd, even to surfeit.
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