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  • And, anyway, I've got to keep up fires and water boiling and them dumb'd frogs under the willows from croaking so's She can sleep to-night.

    Green Valley Katharine Reynolds

  • Dunfish, in the old newspapers, were often called "dumb'd fish"; and they per - chance come to him as to one of their kindred.

    Oldport Days 1873

  • Dunfish, in the old newspapers, were often called "dumb'd fish"; and they perchance come to him as to one of their kindred.

    Oldport Days Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867

  • I. v.50 (134,1) Was beastly dumb by him] Mr. Theobald reads _dumb'd_, put to silence.

    Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746

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