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Neptune, and in the pomp of the Circensian games, to be reveng'd, depos'd his statue from the place it had amongst the other deities.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I Various 1885
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Tenets, in regard to the Celestial Host: They depos'd, and swore point-blank, that he had been heard to aver, that the Stars never sat in the Sea.
Zadig Or, The Book of Fate 1694-1778 Voltaire 1736
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It was a strange Mistery, and not easily unriddled, that those Men who had always a known aversion to the Interest of the depos'd King should fall in with this Party, and those that were Friends to the general Good, never forgave it them.
The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon Daniel Defoe 1696
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_Jonathan Wild_, depos'd, The Prosecutor came to him, and desir'd him to enquire after his Goods that had been stolen, telling him he suspected the Prisoner to have been concern'd in the Robbery, he having before committed some Robberies in the Neighbourhood.
The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard Containing a Particular Account of His Many Robberies and Escapes Daniel Defoe 1696
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From his chill Throne by thy strong heat's depos'd.
The Third Part of the Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley Being his Six Books of Plants 1689
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I then depos'd myfelf, and left the reins to thee#
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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I then depos'd myfelf, and left the reins to thee.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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a little dipp'd in the rebellion of the commons, and being brother-in-law to John of Ghant, it was no wonder if he follow'd the fortunes of that family, and was well with Henry the Fourth when he had depos'd his predecessor.
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Edmund Spenser 1730
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983: Seiz'd on the Realme, depos'd the rightfull King,
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631: Yet that by you depos'd, you quake like Rebells.
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