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  • He fixed on Richard & Kate [1] which I spoke with more effect than usual, for the water made its passage at my eyes, and I dare not stop, so I dash'd through it.

    Letter 71 2009

  • To disarm Macbeth against dishonoring his pledge to murder King Duncan to ascend the Scottish throne, Lady Macbeth scolds, "I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from the boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this."

    Bruce Fein: Henry Kissinger: Moral Midget Destined for Obscurity Bruce Fein 2010

  • This dash'd in pieces all my Intentions toward the Country: I could not leave my Manly, my beloved Captain: No, I resolved to be Concubine, Strumpet, or whatever the malicious World would call me, Terms invented by great Fortunes and ugly Faces, who would monopolize all the fine Gentlemen to themselves.

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • This dash'd in pieces all my Intentions toward the Country: I could not leave my Manly, my beloved Captain: No, I resolved to be Concubine, Strumpet, or whatever the malicious World would call me, Terms invented by great Fortunes and ugly Faces, who would monopolize all the fine Gentlemen to themselves.

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  •     Straight to the ground, dash'd forth ungently, the gift shoots headlong;

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  •     Straight to the ground, dash'd forth ungently, the gift shoots headlong;

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • Magistrate as soon as he heard it, dash'd the Warrant out of his Hand, and said sir you are discharged.

    John Adams diary 22, 4 September - 9 November 1774 1961

  • I indeed, at that very time, thus thought: perhaps he will provide, or hath in readiness some Treasure for me; but he dash'd my hope all to pieces.

    The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires John Frederick Helvetius

  • If I don't give them dash'd Norfolk Dumplings a doing, I'll 'eat my old' at.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 15, 1891 Various

  • And round, sling-like he whirl'd; then savage dash'd

    The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II 43 BC-18? Ovid

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