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'Ha!' she exclaimed -- 'had'st thou not awakened, I would have killed thee!
City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston George Thompson
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“Thy wife, if wife thou had'st” -- but now the surge
The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II 43 BC-18? Ovid
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WILL HONEYCOMB, who looks upon love as his particular province, interrupting our friend with a jaunty laugh; 'I thought, Knight,' says he, 'thou had'st lived long enough in the world, not to pin thy happiness upon one that is a woman and a widow.
The Coverley Papers Various
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And some men's hate thou had'st, yet all shall weep thee dead;
The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems Kate Seymour MacLean
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On the banks of Cart sae green, bonnie Peggy, O! Yet had'st thou been true to me, bonnie Peggy, O! As I still hae been to thee, bonnie Peggy, O! Then with bosom, oh, how light,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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Thou had'st thrust down the bitter prince who killed
In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World Various 1902
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That, tired with slaughter, thou had'st sunk that night
The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor 70 BC-19 BC Virgil 1902
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And Marcus Aurelius says: "Think not so much of what thou hast not, as of what thou hast; but of the things which thou hast, select the best, and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought if thou had'st them not."
The Girl Wanted Nixon Waterman 1901
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From whom thou had'st this spirit, thou dar'st not hope it.
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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When Cervins perils thou, the first, had'st fought
Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses John Douglas Sutherland Campbell 1879
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