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The trappings of his horse emboss'd with barbarous gold.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various
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Their arms of fire wreak'd out their ire, their shields emboss'd with gold,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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Helms, bits emboss'd, and swords of shining steel;
The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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For these, emboss'd, the heav'nly smith had wrought
The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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On the other was represented the course of the moon, and the seven stars; and what days were lucky, what unlucky, with an emboss'd studd to distinguish the one from the other.
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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Now scoop'd in gulfs, with mountains now emboss'd!
The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes George Gilfillan 1845
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Of snowy hue, emboss'd with blue and scarlet porcupine;
The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828
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Now scoop'd in gulfs, with mountains now emboss'd!
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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: "Brach Merriman, the poor cur, is emboss'd;" and A. and C. iv.
The Lady of the Lake Walter Scott 1801
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George Turbervile, in his Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting (A.D. 1576), says: "When the hart is foamy at the mouth, we say, that he is emboss'd."
The Lady of the Lake Walter Scott 1801
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