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  • I hope this, at least, will not be deem'd an intrusion.

    Letter 264 2009

  • We did not go to our Inn untill eleven, compleatly tired, when we heard what we deem'd a repeated

    Letter 290 2009

  • This, I hope, will not be deem'd an impertinent intrusion; for 'tis the high rank you hold in the literary world prompted me to this, because on your judgment I can rely with satisfaction.

    Letter 12 2009

  • World look'd upon as Wife to Marcellus; so consequently deem'd himself affronted, and me dishonour'd in this Address; wherefore he charg'd Marcellus never to come near me, and forbid me all

    Exilius 2008

  • Landlords; if I pray'd in the Temple, it was deem'd Hypocrisy; if I treated my Friends, it was Lewdness; if I requir'd any just Debt, it was

    Exilius 2008

  • The argument consists of whistling half a dozen bars of "Lillabullero"; it is Uncle Toby's response "when any thing shocked or surprised him; ---- but especially when any thing, which he deem'd very absurd, was offer'd."

    Archive 2006-01-01 David 2006

  • The argument consists of whistling half a dozen bars of "Lillabullero"; it is Uncle Toby's response "when any thing shocked or surprised him; ---- but especially when any thing, which he deem'd very absurd, was offer'd."

    Tristram Shandy David 2006

  • In Childe Harold 2.8 Byron portrays this syncretism with his usual negligent ease: "Yet if, as holiest men have deem'd, there be" a life hereafter, we would encounter in it "the Bactrian, Samian sage."

    Hemans, Heber, and _Superstition and Revelation_ 1998

  • He, who contends for Freedom, can ne'er be justly deem'd his Sovereign's Foe:

    John Adams diary 16, 10 January 1771 - 28 [i.e. 27] November 1772 1961

  • So deem'd he: yet he listen'd, plunged in thought;

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester

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