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"I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack'd," Macbeth (Ian Merrill Peakes) says, then flashes a sickly grin that gives away the fear he feels inside.
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Phew i thought some cyber terrorist hack'd the site.
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With sword-cut and spear-thrust all hack'd and pierced through;
The Talisman 1894
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Whereby he was much hack'd, while they were stay'd
The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems William Morris 1865
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And yet!! to suffer that army to be cut to pieces, hack'd, butchered, tomahawk'd, by a surprise -- the very thing I guarded him against!!
Washington in Domestic Life Richard Rush 1819
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They hack'd and hash'd, while broad-swords clash'd,
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Why not rather, _Bear our hack'd targets_ with spirit and exaltation, such as becomes the brave warriors _that own them_?
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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I was fourteen more getting the Branches and Limbs, and the vast spreading Head of it cut off, which I hack'd and hew'd through with Axe and Hatchet, and inexpressible Labour: After this, it cost me a Month to shape it, and dub it to a Proportion, and to something like the Bottom of a Boat, that it might swim upright as it ought to do.
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner 1719
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Bear our hack'd targets like the men that owe them:
Antony and Cleopatra 1606
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Tell me now in eamell, How came FalftaPs fword fo hack'd? '
The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare: In Six Volumes William Shakespeare , Joseph Rann 1791
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